Tres Uves - three grape varieties - three times V for Vigiriega, Viognier and Vermentino.
Vigiriega plays the Spanish part in this southern European trio. For a long time one of the most important white grape varieties in the south of Spain, phylloxera put an end to it a good 100 years ago. The ...
The Hohenegg is steep and partly exposed vineyard from south-east to south-west. The soils are based on barren Opok, the classic limestone marl of southern Styria, and are influenced by both cool northern winds and Mediterranean air masses. The berries up there are somewhat smaller than usual and...
Elisa Carpanese is the wife of Filippo Gamba, the owner of the Alla Costiera winery in the Colli Euganei. While he grew up among the vines, it was through him that she first became interested in wine. Initially, she dealt with the bureaucracy alongside a 40-hour job away from the wine industry a...
In addition to pasture areas, olive trees, wheat fields, forests, vegetable gardens, a restaurant and a guest house, there is also a vineyard with Greccheto Gentile alias Pignoletto on the 100 hectare land of the Tenuta Saiano.
From the variety that is often vinified to completely irrelevant wi...
Data sheet
Grape varieties: Carricante (90 per cent) + 10 per cent traditional Etna grape varieties
Vineyard: Rinazzo - plot on Mount Etna at around 1000 metres - volcanic-sandy terrain
Harvest: by hand
Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeasts in 500 litre barrels, 4-8 days contact with the skins ...
Trachite is the omnipresent volcanic rock of the Colli Euganei, which contributed greatly to the former wealth of the hills. Anyone who is not familiar with the geological formation at the moment should briefly recall St Mark's Square in Venice, which is paved with it.
Filippo Gamba's Trachit do...
data sheet
Grape variety: Pinot Blanc
Vineyard:
Eppan, 520 meters above the sea. Loamy, calcareic, profound soil with a high proportion of white dolomite rock.
reading: By hand
Fermentation: Full grape pressing | wild yeast | in steel tanks
expansion: 8 months on the yeast in the neutral...
The C.C.C. is the most daring of Daniele Ricci's many Timorasso variants. The name itself bears witness to this: the C.C.C. stands for "come un cane in chiesa", "like a dog in church", and thus subtly indicates that we are dealing with a wine that has been vinified beyond classic conventions.
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Jura meets Marsala. The Muffato is - as sometimes happens with the production of special wines - a child of chance. Its mother was a barrel of Catarratto that was filled in 2013, but was then forgotten. Over the years, a little wine always evaporated in it, over which - increasingly exposed to th...
The Sauvignon Blanc Graf is an example of how Sauvignon can be when you let nature have the first and last word. Not that this isn't the case with Sepp Muster's other wines. With his Sauvignon Blanc, however, it is even more noticeable, as it differs so clearly from the many versions of the varie...