Description
Alto Adige Weissburgunder 2019 Bergkellerei Passeier
Variety: Pinot Blanc 100%
Intense straw yellow color with fascinating golden areas.
The nose is wonderfully intense, with luxuriant and well-defined aromas. The notes of broom and ripe yellow fruit are top, followed by spicy ones. of vanilla and nutmeg. Acacia honey, croissants and panna cotta lengthen it towards an evident complexity. In this vintage it also shows subtle notes of aromatic herbs on the finish, Excellent.
On the palate it is full and creamy, but with adequate and therefore excellent structure. So the combination of freshness and verticality is excellent, so that the volume moves well supported and in harmony. The memory is very persistent, with aromas of medlar, honey and sweet spices.
The young Konrad Pixner is a passionate and refined winemaker, because his Pinot Blanc is among the best in all of Italy.
Alto Adige Weissburgunder 2019 Bergkellerei Passeier
The vineyard is in the high mountains at an altitude of 500 meters above sea level.
Training system: espalier with guyot pruning, while the density is 6000 plants per hectare, for a yield of 50 hectoliters per hectare.
The harvest, carried out manually in 20 kg crates, takes place in several stages from early September to early October.
It conducts alcoholic fermentation partly with the skins (20%) and the rest in the absence of the skins, partly in stainless steel and partly in barrique, with indigenous yeasts. Refine in the same containers in contact with the fine yeasts for nine months.
It stabilizes with the use of the winter cold and after a light filtration it is bottled.
Analytical data: the total acidity is 5.4 grams per liter and the sugar residues are 1.0 grams per liter.
