Walter reports on a slew of wines he has tasted recently, starting in the north of the country today and continuing with the centre, south and islands tomorrow. Above, Fenja Hinz in her Glen Pinot Noir vineyard in Montan, Alto Adige.
Piemonte has many indigenous grape varieties, and I thought I knew them all, until I came across Hic et Nunc’s Felen bottling, a white made of Baratuciat from a north-facing vineyard planted on clay soils at an elevation of 170 m (558 ft). Its recorded history is not very long, with documents going back to the mid 20th...
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