Alto Adige
Alto Adige, the northern province of the region, offers an extremely interesting and rich production of wines, mainly focused on the production of excellent white and red wines.
Abbazia di Novacella 2004 Alto Adige Valle Isargo Kerner ($19.99)
Transparent straw color. Fresh aromas offer a tasty blend of mixed white fruits, with hints of apple, peach, grapefruit and a tropical whiff of mango.
Alto Adige
Alto Adige - 95% to 100% (marked "Muller Thurgau"), 0% Ã- 25% (in versions of "White" and "liabilities"), 90% to 100% (in the versions "Terlano", "Valle Isarco" and "Val Venosta" with the mention of the grape), ...
Alto Adige, Italy is the home of some stellar Pinot Grigios and Gewurztraminer wine finds.
Pinot Blanc
An introduction to Pinot Blanc wines.
Trentino-Alto Adige - (Tren-TEE-noe Ahl-toe AH-dee-jay)
Mountainous wine region of the Italian North, reaching the Alpine foothills above Trentino and Bolzano. Best known for excellent dry whites.
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Trentino-Alto Adige (tren-tee'-no ahl'-to ah'-dee-jay)
The northernmost of Italy's wine producing regions. A large amount of red wine is made here as well as whites, and even sparkling wines.
As it happens, Alto Adige is the location of one of the most dramatic expressions of modern global warming: the discovery of the so-called Iceman\the frozen remains of a herder who lived here 5,300 years ago.
[edit] Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
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Wines from Bolzano-Bozen have official designations in both the Italian and German languages. Labels typically use the German form.
Northeast-within this zone are the three regions: Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, which are known collectively as the Tre Venezie. Veneto is Italy's largest producer of D.O.C wines.
It comes from the Alto Adige region in northeast Italy, the same place that brings us Pinot Grigio, believe it or not. And if you think Pinot Grigio is a good white wine, this bottle will blow your mind.
Lagrein, a red wine grape grown predominantly in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of northern Italy. Lagrein produces deep, dark red wines called Lagrein Dunkel or Lagrein Scuro.
The variety is thought to have originated near Tramin in Northern Italy and been common in the Alto Adige region in medieval times, ...
In Italy, where pinot noir is known as Pinot nero, it has traditionally been cultivated in the Alto Adige, Collio Goriziano, Oltrepò Pavese and Trentino regions to produce Burgundy style red wines.
Scelto
Selected, in particular for certain late harvest wines as in the Alto Adige province of Trentino-Alto Adige
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LAGREIN: Red wine variety found in Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy. Used to make varietal and rosé wines (in the latter case called Lagrein Kretzer) of good character that can age well if from Bolzano region superior vintage years.
The latter grape is better known as the Schiava Grossa where grown in the Alto Adige region of Italy. Used to produce a Riesling-like white wine said to often reach "Auslese" Pradikat quality.
While the French have achieved the greatest success with this grape and its name may be German, the history of Gewürztraminer began in Italy's Tyrollean Alps, near the village of Termeno (Tramin) in Alto Adige.
Good names to look for: Alois Lageder, Tiefenbrunner, and Kris from Franz Haas. Others include Zenato, Placido, and Folonari. This grape hits its heights in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige regions, so look for that on labels.
 See also: Wine, Grape, Region, Style, Italy
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