“Eichhorn” Pinot Bianco Alto Adige Terlano DOC 2024 (BIO)

Tenuta Manincor | South Tyrol
Weingut Manincor | St. Josef am See 4 | IT 39052 Kaltern

01140624 · 0,75 l · 37,33 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately

Eichhorn vineyard – the name sounds like South Tyrol, like centuries-old vines rooted in sandy loam soils on volcanic porphyry weathered rock. As with the Sauvignon, this parcel is also located within the Tenuta Lieben Aich in Terlan, 300 metres above sea level, south-west exposed to the mild breeze. But where Tannenberg aims for maximum mineral tension, Eichhorn seeks a balance between Alpine clarity and Mediterranean fullness. This is where Pinot Bianco – pinot Bianco, as South Tyroleans call it – a variety that oscillates between restraint and expression. After a wet spring and hot summer, 2024 brought a golden autumn that allowed for physiologically perfectly ripe grapes. The grapes were harvested by hand at the end of September, striking an ideal balance between ripeness, freshness and moderate alcohol – a vintage that combines cool character with ripe fruit. The yield was 50 hectolitres per hectare. The destemmed berries remain in the press for eight hours for maceration – this is shorter than for Sauvignons because Pinot Blanc is more subtle in its use of structure. Spontaneous fermentation with wild yeasts in wooden barrels, followed by nine months of ageing on the fine lees.

Bright yellow in the glass. Where Tannenberg smells of wet stone, Eichhorn shows ripe apples and white flowers. The porphyry rock provides the minerality, but it comes across more gently, as limestone freshness rather than with a certain flintstone sharpness. Juicy on the palate with invigorating acidity that vibrates with minerality and is long-lasting. The biological acid reduction to 5.8 grams per Liters gives the wine a creamy roundness without heaviness. Decant when young and serve in Burgundy glasses. Goes well with shellfish, fine fish dishes, aromatic cheese – wherever mineral elegance meets fruit without one side dominating. SUPERIORE.DE

"A little and a lot. Some call it Pinot Blanc. And yet. Our Pinot Bianco Eichhorn has an Alpine-Mediterranean flavour: bright and flowery like alpine meadows, long-lasting and spicy like the sea." Michael Graf Goëss-Enzenberg, Weingut Manincor