Alto Adige or South-Tyrol (Süd Tirol) is a province in northeast Italy with its own regional Alto-Adige DOC. It includes part of the Dolomites range, with limestone summits like the Three Peaks of Lavaredo. Pragser Wildsee lake (Lago di Braies) sits in a valley crossed by paths, including one leading to the Plätzwiese (Prato Piazza) high plateau.

The Loacker family point out that ‘the name South Tyrol only came into general use after the part of Tyrol south of the Brenner was annexed by Italy, though in earlier times it was not a single entity and became a region of counties immediately after the kingdom of Lombards was founded in 568 AD. The Lombards encouraged the Bavarians to settle in these alpine valleys in order to ward off the threat of an invasion by Slavs. The County of Bozen was divided in 1090. The eastern half was taken by the Counts of Morit and included the present-day localities of Gargazon, Terlan, Bozen, Leifers, Ritten etc. The Counts of Morit abandoned their original castle and built Schloss Greifenstein above Siebeneich (Sauschloss). Since time immemorial wines from Rhaetia, later Tyrol, have been highly appreciated far and wide, first among the Romans, later among German-speaking peoples. The St. Magdalena expresses the area’s original, natural characteristics and for this reason the Loacker family named it Morit.”

Wines: Alto-Adige DOC. | Santa Maddalena or Sankt Maddalena DOC.