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Girlan Alto Adige Platt & Riegel Pinot Bianco 2019
$47.99
SPECIAL BUY 6 or more. Gorgeous Single Vineyard textural Pinot Bianco from Northern Italy’s Alto Adige.
Description
Girlan is one of the finest ‘grower collectives’ in Northern Italy’s spectacular Alto Adige, a stone’s throw from the Austrian and Swiss borders and encircled by the saw-toothed Dolomite Mountains, producing exemplary whites and reds. They have long encouraged their growers to focus on those varieties that best suit their soils, aspects and altitudes and they have led the way in single ‘commune’ and single vineyard wines. Girlan was also one of the first collectives in Alto Adige to pay its growers according to the quality of their fruit and apply strict controls on yields.
It is important to understand the central role that collective wine growing has had in Alto Adige. For a multitude of reasons including: geographic isolation, mountainous topography and tiny average holdings, local growers have historically banded together to form co-operatives. Over 70% of the region’s wines are produced by such co-ops and a number, including Girlan, control a wonderful array of the region’s finest sites.
This wine comes from a single-vineyard called Platt & Riegl at an elevation of 550 metres above sea level in the gravelly, mineral-rich soils of the Appiano Monte. The area is considered to be one of the premier terroirs of the Alto Adige, and this is one of its finest vineyards. Here, in the lee of the snow-capped Mendola Mountain, the sun-drenched, rocky soils and the elevation make a considerable contribution to the style of the wine, as do the old vines, hand-harvesting, partial malo and partial vinification in large oak (50% in 5,000L cask). These influences result in a more textural, satiny and mineral wine than you typically get from this variety.
90 points, Eric Guido, Vinous “The 2019 Platt & Riegl from Cantina Girlan takes all of the refreshing and tension-building characteristics of the “entry-level” Pinot Bianco and adds a bit more depth and ripeness of fruit. Sweet yellow flowers, hints of peach, white pepper and smoke make up its bouquet, as the expression turns more to notes of apple with a savory twang of wild herbs on the palate. There’s a lovely end note of sour lime, minerals and inner florals.”
RRP $58 *SPECIAL when you buy 6 or more … $47.99
Additional information
Producer | Girlan |
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Region or Country | Alto Adige, Italy |
Variety | Pinot Bianco |
Vintage | 2019 |
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