Wine description: Luminous pale yellow in color Luminous pale yellow in color, this wine shows well-balanced apple, banana and vanilla notes. Full of character, it is well-structured and pleasantly salty on the tongue. Partial aging in small oak barrels lends this wine structure and elegance. It is well suited to cellar aging.
Serving suggestion: This white wine makes a good companion to all sorts of appetizers, seafood, poultry, pork or veal.
Grape varieties: 100% Chardonnay
Vineyard lacation: vineyards in Kurtatsch
Soil composition: sandy alluvial moraine soil
Growing system: guyot and pergola; - 7,000 - 3,500 vines / hectare
Yield: 60 - 70 hl / hectare
Age of wines: till 20 years
Vinification: fermentation in stainless steel tanks between 20 - 21°C.; 10% of the wine was fermented and aged in barriques the rest was aged for 5 months on the fine lees in the tank.
Receptacles: stainless steel and 10% barrique
Alcohol content: 13,5% by vol.
yr. 2012 Vinum Wine Magazine:
14 of 20 Points.
"Vinum Wine Magazine" has rated the wine "Tiefenbrunner Turmhof Chardonnay Alto Adige, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy" from the vintage 2012 on 01.02.2014 with 14 of 20 points.
yr. 2008 Wine Spectator:
90 of 100 Points.
"Wine Spectator" has rated the wine "Tiefenbrunner Turmhof Chardonnay Alto Adige, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy" from the vintage 2008 on 31.08.2009 with 90 of 100 points.
yr. 1993 Wine Spectator:
85 of 100 Points.
"Wine Spectator" has rated the wine "Tiefenbrunner Turmhof Chardonnay Alto Adige, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy" from the vintage 1993 on 31.01.1995 with 85 of 100 points.
This Lagrein is characterised by a lively ruby red colour and a variety of aromas reminiscent of ripe red fruits. A full, pleasantly warm and intense wine with a velvety softness. A red wine of distinction, unique in its way, and only to be found in South Tyrol. It goes exceedingly well with meat, roasts and spicy cheeses, but it is also a wine to savour and for meditation, above all when it is drunk following several years of ageing and maturation in the bottle.
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Those who have a little patience and can cellar their "Kirchhügel" Cabernet for a length of time will be rewarded with tertiary aromas that are reminiscent of an oriental tea ceremony: cedar, suede, tobacco, roasted hazelnuts, sponge cake, and dried blackberries.
Ham bacon butchery Hell, finest, fragrantly, spicy smoking bacon speck.
It goes without saying that Gewürztraminer is the most typical of South Tyrolean white wines. It is here that the wine originated, getting its name the lower vallery wine village of Termeno. This wine is characterised by an intense yellow colour and the unmistakable aroma of roses and mixed spices just like pepper, nutmeg and cloves. It is equally as convincing on the palate where it lingers, leaving behind intense, unforgettable impressions. This white wine is extremely well suited to be served as an aperitif or as an accompaniment to strong-flavored, spicy dishes made fish, lobst and liver pâté. Served chilled, it can be drunk young, yet also ages well.
The Pinot Bianco - the most important and typical of all the South Tyrolean grape varieties - has now been promoted to the top of the St. Valentin range. The St. Valentin has a clear, straw colour with slightly green reflections. It smells delightfully of intensive and typical fruit aromas: ripe app - les and pears combined with melons and a trace of a fine vanilla fragrance. Concentrated and with a wonderful strength and richness, refined and clear in its way, its structure appears refresh- ing despiete the maturation in wood: the Pinot Bianco St. Valentin is a wine which is set to become a real talking point.
