Eisacktaler Kellerei - Cantina Valle Isarco - Sauvignon2023
WHITE WINE
- Producer Eisacktaler Kellerei
- Blend 100% Sauvignon
- Country Italy
- Region Trentino-Alto-Adige
- UPC 6 89016 12003 4
Reviews
Wine Enthusiast 91
Aromas of snow pea, water chestnut, and lime leaf create a fresh, intriguing bouquet. The palate is fleshy and vibrant, with key lime pie-like texture and tartness that dance across the tongue. A kick of gravel on the finish adds a distinctive mineral edge, making for a wine that's both refreshing and complex.
by JP, Wine Enthusiast , 2024
Technical Details
Estate
Cantina Valle Isarco is located in the Isarco Valley, the northernmost wine producing area of Alto Adige. The winery incorporates 135 families as grower members and has an exceptional reputation for high quality white wines. The special microclimate of this region, with hot summer days and fresh nights at vintage time, makes sure that the grapes reach maturity with a high sugar content. The light and gravelly soils, containing deal of minerals, provide these wines with strong character and incomparable typicality and elegance. This is why the vine-growers of the Valle Isarco have specialized in the cultivation of white grapes, it is the ideal climate for these local grape varieties.The youngest winery of note in Alto Adige, Cantina Valle Isarco was founded in 1961 at Maso Reinthaler. Unfortunately, the initial winery burnt down in 1962 and was then replaced by a new modern winery in 1975. The 135 members benefit from altitudes ranging from 300m – 1000m, excellent soils and climate for producing expressive wines with wonderful individual varietal character. For the most part, as a result of the steep slopes on which the vineyards lie, picking is almost entirely done by hand.
The Isarco Valley offers one of the most beautiful natural landscapes in Alto Adige, with its majestic mountains dotted by alpine farmhouses, castles, monasteries, villages, magnificent chestnut groves and, above all, terraced vineyards enclosed within neat low stone walls. The people are accustomed to working the predominantly steep mountain slopes, tending their vineyards at heights of up to 950m. It is primarily, this variety that commands respect and keeps alive the valley people’s attachment to their unique natural surroundings.
Food pairing
asparagus, snails, poached or grilled fish, ideal as an aperitif.Tasting notes
Colour: Greenish yellowNose: Intense, with nettle and blackcurrant scents
Taste: dry, rounded, typical
Technical data
GRAPE VARIETY 100% Sauvignon BlancALTITUDE 450 - 700 m
POSITION AND SOIL Hot, fertile, very deep alluvial soils with porphyritic sediment