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Cantina Terlano Alto Adige Pinot Bianco Tradition 2024

$2599
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Lots of mineral veins with fresh dry citrus fruit and tones of green apple.

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Decanter

93 points

"The Alto Adige produces arguably the finest Pinot Bianco in the world, and this scintillating example is a perfect introduction to the local style. Fermentation and lees ageing in stainless steel only produces a white displaying jasmine inflections to as yet closed pear and yellow peach aromas and a light waxiness. Balanced and with lovely acidity, it's quite fleshy but not fully open yet, showing some nectarine and flowers for now. Really good length, with that classic stony, salty finish."

Wine Spectator

90 points

"Well-balanced and fresh, with flavors of ripe nectarine, green almond, passion fruit and white blossom, plus a stony base note that chimes in on the finish. Drink now."

More about

Way up high in the northern corner of Italy lies the city of Bolzano, a place where Latin and Germanic cultures collide (peacefully! Italian and German-speakers happily live side by side). This is the crossroads of the Trentino-Alto Adige wine region of Italy. Leave this city in any direction, and you will come across vineyards, but depending on which way you go, the grape varieties, the terroirs and the wine cultures and traditions will all be different.

Today, we will follow the Adige river out of Bolzano upriver (to the northwest) into an area known as Terlano. Here we are far from the olive groves of Tuscany or Crete, and yet this is one of the oldest wine regions in the world. Archaeologists have found early iron-age tools here dating from long before the Romans showed up that were clearly used to prune vines.

Here, we are practically in the alps, and the complex topography – mountain tops, glacial deposits, steep valleys and the like – are not really conducive to large-scale agriculture. Instead you have small holdings by tiny producers. Lacking the economies of scale necessary to efficiently produce wine, they formed a cooperative back in the 1890s. Today, the Cantina di Terlano makes some of the very best wines of the region, and some of the best white wines from all of Italy. Like the great Produttori of Barbaresco, this Cantina is the jewel of its wine region.

The Cantina’s members’ holdings sprawl up a mountain, Monte Tschoggl, with apples growing on the lower slopes and grapes, mostly white wine grapes, further up. The volcanic soils filled with crystals, minerals and other glacial deposits produce distinctive, highly mineral and saline white wines.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Pinot Blanc

  • Vintage

    2024

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Sustainable

  • Style

    Aromatic , Floral , Fruity

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied

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