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Rottensteiner Pinot Grigio

Rottensteiner Pinot Grigio

$34.99

A unique take on a common varietal often showcased in Italian wines, Rottensteiner's Pinot Grigio blends grapes from both moderate and high-elevation vineyards to create harmony between body and elegance, between structure and minerality. 

Rottensteiner's Pinot Grigio is a beguilingly complex wine, ripe with tropical fruit and warm spice notes. This allows for an effortless pairing with all manner of food, from starters to poultry - or have it on its own to fully explore all the complexity this wine has to offer.

750ml ml

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Region:Italy > Trentino Alto Adige
Vintage:2021
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The Rottensteiner family is one of the oldest families to have continually lived in southern Tyrol, with the family name being mentioned all the way back to the 1530s. The winery itself was founded in 1956 by the late Hans Rottensteiner, who originally started the winery to produce bulk wine for export to Switzerland. In the 80s, Hans’s son Toni Rottensteiner joined him after completing his studies of Oenology in Switzerland with a new perspective on how the business should go forward. This change included switching over to bottling the wines themselves instead of selling them in bulk out of the country. In 2001 Toni’s son, Hannes, joined the business to help with the winemaking process, this allowed Toni to also focus more on the Viniculture side of things with fewer distractions. Toni and Hannes’s motto for their wine is “A good wine must have elegance and drinkability” and this absolutely shows. 

The Rottensteiner name is directly linked to the region itself, the soils of Alto-Adige tend to have a large amount of porphyry (A red/purple stone consisting of coarse-grained crystals). Their name comes from the German name for red rock (Roter, meaning Red, and Stein, meaning Rock). This is seen in a lot of their wines with the displaying terroir being one of their main goals, the minerality that is displayed makes this apparent.  

The winemaking process itself is headed by Hannes, who has taken a leading role in bringing the winery into the new age while still maintaining tradition. This is shown in the winery with 50-year-old neutral oak barriques sitting next to temperature-controlled steel fermentation tanks. The push for modernization is something that some wineries may trip and stumble while pursuing the future, thanks to Hannes, Rottenstiener has accomplished it while staying true to their motto, “elegance and drinkability”. 

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