Winemaker Notes
Pinot Nero matches with light fish dishes, roasted wild game and red meat.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
Aromas of cooked strawberry with hints of orange peel and cream follow through to medium body, a solid core of fruit and round tannins. Shows a little wood (100% barrel aged for one year) now even though only 20% new is used. This will come together nicely by 2020. Drink or hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
Packaged in a screw cap bottle (that is still a rarity in Italy), the 2015 Alto Adige Pinot Nero is a delicately balanced and subtle wine. The aromas are assembled with precision and integrity, giving prominence to rose hip, violets and forest berry. There are distant almond-like aromas as well. This is a bright and fragrant wine that does great justice to this grape variety. It presents Italian Pinot Nero with purity and clarity.
Rating: 91+
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