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Most Recent Tasting notes:

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.