Description

Although a completely different grape variety, Pinot Bianco or better known here a Pinot Blanc is an excellent and reasonably priced alternative to Chardonnay.

Always a store favorite, the just released 2024 vintage has greater intensity and depth than the very good 2023.  Easily worth the $1 price increase, take advantage of this limited offer that brings the bottle price down to just $23.95.  Perfectly ripened “golden delicious” apple and pear fruit with a slight underlying minerality….pure, mouth filling, smooth and creamy, all is bolstered by refreshingly brisk acidity that extends into the lengthy finish!

Again, this version from Italy’s cool clime northeastern Dolomite Alps along the Austrian border is unoaked.  Rather the Pinot Bianco grape juice is slowly fermented in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks, and then aged on the lees while in tank for another 6-7 months which contribute to the wine’s charming creamy texture. 

Founded in 1893, Cantina Terlano is one of the leading quality cooperative wine estates in Europe. It is based in the village of Terlano near Bolzano and counts 143 members who together farm 190 hectares of vines. The soils are especially rich in reddish porphyry soils, quartz and other minerals because this area sits inside an ancient volcanic crater.

The estate philosophy was set by the legendary winemaker Sebastian Stocker and is rigorously followed today by current enologist Rudi Kofler and estate director Klaus Gasser.

The estate has designed its own rounded bottle that is affectionately called the “Sebastianina,” named after Mr. Stocker who first designed it. “Protecting our traditional bottle is part of our efforts to safeguard the Terlano brand,” says Klaus Gasser. “Its beauty and shape express the qualities want to transmit to the senses, and the bottle will be used on both the Selection and the Tradition lines from this point on.”