Alois Lageder: Focus on quality, sustainability & biodiversity through generations.
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Alois Lageder is one of Alto Adige and Italy’s most influential wine estates, not only for the quality of its wines, but for its long-standing commitment to sustainable and biodynamic viticulture. Founded in 1823, the estate has evolved over six generations, continuously adapting its approach while remaining deeply rooted in place, tradition, and long-term thinking.
“Alois Lageder’s impressive portfolio delivers classic interpretations of variety and place, as well as more experimental bottlings that stretch the imagination.”
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Situated in northern Italy at the foot of the Dolomites, Alto Adige is defined by a rare interplay of Alpine freshness and Mediterranean warmth. The region offers a complex mosaic of soils, altitudes and exposures, and Alois Lageder’s vineyards span this diversity, from warmer, limestone-rich sites on the valley floor to cooler, higher-altitude parcels that preserve acidity and aromatic precision. This geographical variation sits at the heart of the estate’s philosophy: wines should reflect site, not cellar technique.
Biodynamics
Two centuries of winemaking have shaped the winery Alois Lageder, but it’s the estate’s relentless pursuit of quality — and its leadership in biodynamic farming — that defines it today. Under the sixth generation, Helena and Clemens Lageder, tradition is paired with a holistic, forward-thinking approach to farming.
The estate’s shift toward biodynamics began in the 1990s under Alois Lageder’s leadership, with experimental practices in the vineyards that led to a full conversion of the family vineyards by 2004 and the release of the first biodynamically certified wines a few years later. Today, biodynamic and organic practices form the foundation of viticulture across the estate and its network of partner growers, strengthening soil health, vineyard balance and the expression of clarity, tension and terroir in the wines.
Biodiversity
Equally central to Alois Lageder’s philosophy is a deep commitment to biodiversity. The estate sees its vineyards as living ecosystems rather than monocultures, and biodiversity is deliberately built into the landscape – through hedges, trees and flowering cover crops, as well as grazing animals that help strengthen natural balance in the vines. For Lageder, diversity isn’t simply an ecological ideal; it’s a cornerstone of quality, creating more fertile soils, healthier agriculture and, ultimately, more character and clarity in the wines. Beyond the estate’s own holdings, Lageder works closely with long-term partner growers, helping drive a broader shift toward organic and biodynamic farming across Alto Adige.
At Alois Lageder, sustainability isn’t an add-on, but the framework through which quality is pursued. In the cellar, the same philosophy applies: fermentations are guided rather than forced, oak is used selectively, and intervention is kept to what is necessary to preserve clarity and site expression.
The result is a portfolio defined by balance, freshness and drinkability – wines where responsibility in the vineyard is inseparable from quality in the glass, and where biodynamics is not a style, but a long-term tool for protecting terroir, relevance and integrity.
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