Trentino's best – tasting notes

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These are my tasting notes from immersion in the produce of the new small growers' association in Trentino, I Dolomitici ('the people from the Dolomites', the mountains pictured), about whom I write here

 

NOSIOLA AND NOSIOLA BLENDS

FRANCESCO POLI
Apparently Francesco Poli is the producer with the longest experience in biodynamics in Trentino. His Nosiola is from the northern part of the Valle dei Laghi, cultivated biodynamically in the Sottivi vineyard at an altitude of 280 m in the commune of Padergnone near Lago di Santa Massenza. The vines are 18 years old and trained on the normally...