This zippy, tart white wine is actually a red Pinot Noir in disguise
This zippy, tart white wine is actually a red Pinot Noir in disguise
Critic Esther Mobley recommends an unconventional white, which its winemaker describes as tasting like the lemon-cherry combo flavor of Italian Ice
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The Waits-Mast Pinot Noir Blanc, from Anderson Valley.Esther Mobley / The Chronicle
The wine is virtually colorless if you needed to assign it a hue, you might call it a pale flax. It smells like lemon juice, juniper berries and faintly of sea salt. The acidity is ripping, waking up your taste buds as it jolts across the sides of your tongue.
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Tenuta-Roveglia vineyard in Brescia, Italy / Photo by Stefano Casati
Ubiquitous and often uninspiring, Pinot Grigio is the best-known Italian white wine. And while there are some good, and even great, bottlings, Italy has so much more to offer.
Producers create excellent wines from non-native Italian grapes like Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, Pinot Blanc and Kerner, mainly from select areas in northern Italy. However, some of the most exciting white wines from up and down the peninsula come from Italy’s native grapes.
To explore the expanse of Italian white wines made with indigenous grapes, we start in the north of the country.
By Kristen Dougall
As the IWSC opens its doors for its 2021 judging days, we are delighted to welcome back some familiar faces to our judging panels, as well as some new experts to the tasting room for our Northern Hemisphere wine judging. The safety of our judges and staff is always of the utmost importance and, with this being the IWSC’s second year hosting its tastings in a global pandemic we have become seasoned social distancers.
Throughout the first two days of judging, our experts tasted through nearly one thousand wines from the UK and France, with over 80% of these wines receiving medals. After such a challenging year, it was encouraging to see that even in a global pandemic good wine does not falter.