Alto Adige Bianco Barthenau Vigna San Michele 2001

Hofstätter (Italy)

Pinot Bianco (70%), Chardonnay (25%), Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling (5%)
White Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧

The wine is crystalline with a straw yellow color and nuances of greenish yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals an aroma of wood, very refined and well integrated with other aromas and not intrusive at all. There can be perceived good and intense aromas of banana, hawthorn, litchi, apple, pear, peach, elder flower and vanilla, all very elegant, refined and pleasing. In the mouth is balanced with excellent correspondence to the nose, intense and crisp. Very agreeable. The finish is persistent with elegant flavors of vanilla, pear, apple and peach. A good wine. This wine is produced with fermentation of the grapes, part in steel tanks and part in barrique.
Alcohol: 13.5%
Appetizers, Risotto and pasta with fish, White meat
Suggested glass	10 °C (50 °F)
(Young and Crisp White Wines)
Issue 10, Summer 2003