Winemaker Notes
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Tasted at the winery, the 2011 Trento Metodo Classico Perlé Brut is aged in bottle for seven years. This wine shows an elegantly compact and firm approach that reflects the crisp and citrusy nature of Chardonnay grown in a cool mountain climate such as this. This vintage has about four grams of sugar per liter (which is about average), and the dosage is very low.
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Decanter
Nose of tropical fruit, apples, tangerine, toast, and toffee. Concentrated fruit balanced with fresh acidity, and a long length.
Representing the topmost expression of a Champagne house, a vintage Champagne is one made from the produce of a single, superior harvest year. Vintage Champagnes account for a mere 5% of total Champagne production and are produced about three times in a decade. Champagne is typically made as a blend of multiple years in order to preserve the house style; these will have non-vintage, or simply, NV on the label. The term, "vintage," as it applies to all wine, simply means a single harvest year.
The southern part of Italy’s northeastern Alpine region, Trentino, produces quality wines from international varieties. But its most exceptional native variety, Teroldego, with plantings concentrated around the sandy, gravelly, limestone soils of its Campo Rotaliano district, makes a deep purple-hued red wine with scents and flavors of wild blackberry, herbs, espresso and cocoa.