Colterenzio, Lafoa Alto Adige Chardonnay DOC 2021

Golden-straw color wine with slight green tints. Melon, creamy-fruity notes are noticeable in the fresh and juicy aroma. The wine settles on the palate with pleasant and rich acidity, with a subtle combination of walnut and oak. The aftertaste is long and nice.

This full-bodied wine is perfect on its own, but an incredible complement to rich fisհ dishes, Cicatelli pasta with fresh crab, chicken and veal.

Grapes are pressed without being destemmed, fermentation takes place in a combination of new and used oak barriques, where partially malolactic fermentation also takes place. 

The wine is aged on lees for 10 months. The process then continues in the bottles for 6 months.

The vineyards are located at an altitude of 400-550 meters and have a dry terrain. The soil is sandy with gravel-moraine sediments.

Lafoa is the name of a separate vineyard lying on a hill between the villages of Colterenzio and Cornayano at an altitude of 400-450 m above sea level. 

Colterenzio is the flagship of the South Tyrol winery, founded in 1960 and today has 290 members․ In the 1980s the director Luis Reifer brought new ideas to Italian wine revolution. He began trying barrique fermentation for whites and aging for reds. Few in Italy can match the combination of style and variety of wines that are of such a high standard.