Winemaker Notes
Straw yellow color with hints of pale green. Complex and elegant bouquet with fruity notes of fresh citrus and white flesh fruits (Golden Delicious apple, Williams pear and peach), well-combined with tropical notes of pineapple and delicate spicy aromas of sage and field balm. Flavors echo the aromas; well structured, with exceptional mineral qualities and a harmonious and fresh finish.
Professional Ratings
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Wine & Spirits
Infiné 1939 is a collaboration between Mark Taub, the CEO of importing company Palm Bay International, and Italian winemaker Carlo Ferrini. Sourced from high elevation vineyards in the foothills of the Dolomitic Alps near Lake Garda, it’s based on chardonnay and sauvignon blanc blended with smaller amounts of gewürztraminer and riesling. Heady with scents of clove, rose petal and litchi, it has a honeyed richness and notes of ginger, tarragon and cured meat. It’s a bold, spicy wine that would complement roasted pork or spicy Thai noodles.
With hundreds of white grape varieties to choose from, winemakers have the freedom to create a virtually endless assortment of blended white wines. In many European regions, strict laws are in place determining the set of varieties that may be used in white wine blends, but in the New World, experimentation is permitted and encouraged. Blending can be utilized to enhance balance or create complexity, lending different layers of flavors and aromas. For example, a variety that creates a soft and full-bodied white wine blend, like Chardonnay, would do well combined with one that is more fragrant and naturally high in acidity. Sometimes small amounts of a particular variety are added to boost color or aromatics. Blending can take place before or after fermentation, with the latter, more popular option giving more control to the winemaker over the final qualities of the wine.
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.