Winemaker Notes
This Grüner Veltliner is characterized by a light yellow, with greenish reflections. The nose opens with a fresh and fruity bouquet, with hints of green apple, enriched with pleasant slightly spicy notes. On the palate it results with a pleasantly lively acidity.
Perfect to accompany appetizers and fish dishes, it is ideal in combination with white meats and fresh cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2021 Eisacktaler Kellerei - Cantina Valle Isarco Grüner Veltliner is heady and fulfilling on the palate. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers aromas and flavors of sandalwood, earthy notes, and savory spices. Enjoy it with steamed clams in fermented black bean sauce. (Tasted: December 27, 2022, San Francisco, CA)
Eisacktaler Kellerei (Cantina Valle Isarco) is located in the Isarco Valley, the northernmost wine producing area of Alto Adige. The winery incorporates 135 families as grower members and has an exceptional reputation for high quality white wines. The special microclimate of this region, with hot summer days and fresh nights at vintage time, makes sure that the grapes reach maturity with a high sugar content. The light and gravelly soils, containing deal of minerals, provide these wines with strong character and incomparable typicality and elegance. This is why the vine-growers of the Valle Isarco have specialized in the cultivation of white grapes, it is the ideal climate for these local grape varieties.
The Isarco Valley offers one of the most beautiful natural landscapes in Alto Adige, with its majestic mountains dotted by alpine farmhouses, castles, monasteries, villages, magnificent chestnut groves and, above all, terraced vineyards enclosed within neat low stone walls. The people are accustomed to working the predominantly steep mountain slopes, tending their vineyards at heights of up to 950m. It is primarily, this variety that commands respect and keeps alive the valley people's attachment to their unique natural surroundings.
Fun to say and delightfully easy to drink, Grüner Veltliner calls Austria its homeland. While some easily quaffable Grüners come in a one-liter—a convenient size—many high caliber single vineyard bottlings can benefit from cellar aging. Somm Secret—About 75% of the world’s Grüner Veltliner comes from Austria but the variety is gaining ground in other countries, namely Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the United States.
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