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Wine Tasting Notes
Most Recent Tasting notes:
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2008 Tramin Co-operative Winery, Alto-Adige, Pinot Grigio: Unterebner, $31 Score: 90.0 Medium-full bodied for a Pinot Grigio, with complex minerality and apple-citrus flavors. Excellent length, though a bit warm. |
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2009 Tramin Co-operative Winery, Alto-Adige, Pinot Grigio: $15 Score: 90.0 Ripe apples with a hint of flowers, dry, balanced and exceedingly long. |
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2009 Tramin Co-operative Winery, Alto-Adige, Chardonnay: $14 Score: 88.0 A straightforward non-oaked Chardonnay with vibrant apple character and fine balance. A real bargain at $14. |
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2006 H. Lun, (white wine blend) Alto-Adige, Sandbichler Cuvée, Bianco: $24 Score: 92.0 A blend of 60% Pinot Bianco, 30% Chardonnay, 10% Riesling. Very complex and layered, serving up bright notes of tangerine, peach and apple. Beautfiully balanced, long and intense. |
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2008 Cantina Bolzano Perl Alto-Adige, Lagrein: $24 Score: 92.0 Beautifully balanced, offering up complex aromas of sweet ripe Boysenberrys and blueberries that follow through to the palate with good acidity, soft tannins and minerality through the long finish. |
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2008 Alois Lageder, Haberle, Alto-Adige, Pinot Bianco: $20 Score: 89.0 Aromatic nose of golden apples with a floral edge, crisp acidity, silky texture, nicely balanced, with a light mineral character through the finish. Very elegant. |
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2007 Colterenzio Cornell, Sigis Mundus, Alto-Adige, Lagrein: $64 Score: 90.0 Dense blackberry-cherry, good acidity, noticeable but moderate tannin, elegant, understated, with good minerality through the long, long finish. Pricey. |
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2007 Colterenzio Alto-Adige, Chardonnay: Formigar $58 Score: 89.0 This barrel fermented Chardonnay displays aromatic apple with a vanilla edge, very good balance and powerful finish. If you?re going to use oak, this is the way to do it. |
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2008 Colterenzio Lafoa Alto-Adige, Sauvignon [Blanc] $62 Score: 93.0 Emphatic varietal character with crisp grapefruit, dried thyme and cat piss, vibrant on the mid-palate, intense through the finish. 15% barrel fermentation gives it a round feel. Nice but very expensive. |
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2006 Terlan Vorberg Alto-Adige, Pinot Bianco: $28 Score: 88.0 Yellow apples and citrus with leesy-yeasty undertones, crisp, lean, dry and minerally. Very fine balance. |
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2005 Abbazia Di Novacella Praepositus Alto-Adige, Pinot Nero: Reserva $60 Score: 91.0 A hint of forest floor-mushroom under cherry aromas, lots of minerality, with a lovely aromatic finish of great length. Very elegant, if understated, but also a bit pricey |
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2008 Tiefenbrunner, Kirchleiten, Alto-Adige, Sauvignon [Blanc] $30 Score: 91.0 Crisp and intensely fruity with apple and tangerine flavors, dry and vibrant on the mid-palate, with fruit and mineral overtones through the long finish. |
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2008 Tiefenbrunner, Alto-Adige, Chardonnay: $15 Score: 88.0 An elegant Chardonnay with no oak or malolactic character, just ripe apples and a hint of citrus |
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2005 Cantina San Michele Appiano, Alto-Adige, Lagrein: $20 Score: 92.0 Explosive nose of blackberry-cherry with underlying earth and minerality. It follows through to the palate with soft tannins, good structure and long finish. |
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2007 Cantina San Michele Appiano Alto-Adige, Pinot Nero: $20 Score: 93.0 Lean and dry and yet fruity (cherry-cranberry), with complex mineral/earth undertones, great vibrancy and length. |