Winemaker Notes
Pairs well with light fish dishes, roasted game and red meats.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Here's an excellent and approachable wine in a screw cap bottle. The 2013 Alto Adige Pinot Nero exhibits tonic lines and tight intensity with perfumed notes of pressed flower and tangy forest berry. The wine offers good complexity but it also shows an informal and easy-drinking approach that is ultimately its strongest card. Very fine tannins are followed by bright acidity.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Wine by Region › Italy › Trentino-Alto Adige › Alto Adige
Taking full advantage of direct sunlight exposure on its steep slopes, many of Alto Adige’s best vineyards are planted at extreme altitude... read more