Cantina Kaltern

Cantina Kaltern is an old-established cooperative winery from Alto Adige, representing a whole village and its wine growers. The winery is an ambassador for the wines produced on the shores of Lake Kaltern and especially for the variety Schiava (Kalterersee) – wines that are made by a community of vintners with great sensitivity, passion and expertise, wines with finesse and complexity and yet wonderfully uncomplicated.

Cantina Kaltern has a long history. It took more than a century for our winery to become what it is and what it stands for today: professionalism, passion, a shared community, experience and the highest quality standards.

Today, Cantina Kaltern is one of the principal wineries of Alto Adige, and Kaltern itself is proud of its reputation as the most popular and best-known wine village in the region. But Kaltern is not only a special corner of the world for wine lovers and connoisseurs from near and far; village life revolves around wine. Wine sets the stage here; it is a source of employment and also of pride for the villagers and wine growers.

Our cooperative is one big family. It has 650 members or wine growers, most of whom own less than one hectare of land – on average 0.7 ha (the size of a football pitch. They are wine growers out of passion and mostly earn a living in other occupations. They manage their historical holdings and old established vineyards with great enthusiasm. Kaltern owes much of its picturesque beauty to them.