This week we are talking about the region Alto Adige - Südtirol, Italy’s northernmost wine region. The idea for this episode is thanks to the Alto Adige - Sudtirol region and Teuwen Communications, a PR and marketing company we have worked with in the past. They reached out to us asking if we were interested in exploring a selection of this region’s signature grapes. We enjoy learning about wines from lesser known wine regions so we thought this would be a great opportunity to talk about it with all of you.

 

Wine Recommendations - All of this wines were sent to us as press samples

Alois Lageder Pinot Grigio 2015 - priced around $13.

• This wine has a nose of peach, lemon and white grapefruit
• It’s dry with medium acidity and light body with flavors of white peach and grapefruit
• This is a great hot weather wine. This is a Pinot Grigio we can get behind!
• you can purchase this wine here

 

Tiefenbrunner  Pinot Bianco 2016 - priced around $16. 

• This wine has a nose of steely minerality, guava, sweet yellow apple and a hint of flowers
• It’s dry with medium acidity and light body with flavors of apple, guava and nectarine
• It’s light but complex in flavors, just the right amount of tropical fruit - not overripe and the floral component in the nose gives a freshness to the wine
• you can purchase this wine here

 

Cantina Tramin Gewürztraminer 2016 - priced around $26. 

• This wine has an intense nose lychee candy, minerality and rose
• It’s dry with medium acidity and medium body with flavors of lychee, rose, apricot and a touch of spice
• Love the nose on this wine, very fruity and floral. This is what we know and love about this variety
• Since it’s dry and has quite a bit of alcohol, this is not your spicy food wine
• you can purchase this wine here

 

Elena Walch Schiava  2016 - priced aoround $17. 

• This light Ruby colored wine has a nose of cherries, strawberries and cranberries
• It’s dry with light tannins, medium acidity, and light body with flavors of fresh red fruits like cherries and raspberries
• This is your summer red: light and fruity, serve it slightly chilled at a party on the patio
• You can purchase this wine here 

 

Muri-Gries Lagrein 2016 - priced around $20. 

• This is a very dark purple wine
• This wine has aromas of sweet baking spice, violets, and black fruits - blackberries, plum and black cherries
• It’s a dry, full bodied wine with medium acidity, medium plus tannins that coat your whole mouth but they are very smooth and flavors of dark fruit, violets and bitter almonds and leather on the finish
• There are a lot of aromas and flavors going on in this wine
• This is a big, bold wine so I wouldn’t drink this on it’s own on a hot day but I would definitely enjoy it with some barbecue
• you can purchase this wine here

 

 

Sources:

• Alto Adige Wine Region 
• Wine Folly