Cantina Valle Isarco Südtirol - Alto Adige DOC Kerner 2023
92 POINTS: Wine Enthusiast Magazine
92 POINTS: Robert Parker's - The Wine Advocate (2022)
94 POINTS: Wine Direct Tasting Team
"This is a lovely wine from high-elevation, quartz-rich soils and is available at a great value price. The Cantina Valle Isarco 2022 Alto Adige Valle Isarco Kerner shows a rich consistency with deep favors of ripe fruit, apricot, pine nut and honey. There is crushed stone at the back that gives lift and contouring to the otherwise bigger texture of this hot-vintage expression. The wine finishes on a dry, elegant note."
- Robert Parker's - The Wine Advocate (2022 Vintage)
A stunning white from the height of the Dolomites in Northern Italy. Cantina Valle Isarco’s Kerner displays beautiful freshness, minerality and regional typicity. Stone fruit flavours of peach and apricot, spiced and aromatic. Very expressive, well-balanced acidity with great length. Great value for money. The wine is aged in stainless steel tank on fine lees for around 4 to 5 months before bottling.
The Kerner grape varietal originates from a cross of Riesling and Schiava (Trollinger) first created in 1929; it’s named after the German poet and medical doctor Justinus Kerner. Kerner has been cultivated in Valle Isarco since the 1990s. Thanks to its resistance to frost, it is ideally suited to being grown on sun-filled sites between 600 and 1000 metres above sea level. Light sandy-gravelly soils provide ideal growing conditions to make wines with excellent fruit and body. The higher altitudes result in moderate vine growth, a longer maturation period and lower yields. This in turn leads to high levels of concentration in the grapes. Valle Isarco’s Kerner is full of minerality, rich in primary fruit and is impressively aromatic.