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Maze Row Wine Merchant announced today that it has been appointed the exclusive U.S. importer of Alto Adige's Girlan, effective immediately. Founded in 1923, Cantina Girlan is a revered producer of terroir-focused Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Today, Cantina Girlan is comprised of 200 deeply committed winegrowers and their families, farming an area covering approximately 220 hectares of vineyards in the best wine-producing areas of the Alto Adige. Girlan joins a portfolio of esteemed wineries from
I recently traveled to Northern Italy to visit the Alto Adige wine region, also known as Sudtirol or South Tyrol, near the Swiss and Austrian borders at the foothills of the Dolomites. The Alto Adige is one of the smallest wine growing regions and has become one of the country’s TOP white wine regions. This unique Alpine landscape is ironically kissed by the hot Mediterranean sun in the Summer. Many of the vineyards are planted on hills and steep mountainsides, producing high altitude, fresh and aromatic wines.