Cuvée Flora Chardonnay is terrific chardonnay that belongs to Italy’s elite. It combines concentration and fullness with acidity and minerality. This is a particularly age-worthy white wine, where expensive oak has been used in – quite unusually – coordinated quantities.
Alto Adige/Südtirol is renowned for Italy’s best white wines, and Girlan belongs to the region’s elite. In the spectacular backdrop of the mountains, the grapes get excellent sun exposure, and cool nights contribute to excellent acidity in the grapes.
The hand-harvested chardonnay grapes come from approx. 20-year-old vines at an altitude of 450-500 meters near the winery in Girlan/Cornaiano. A gentle pressing of the whole bunches is followed by an alcoholic fermentation in French oak barrels of 1200 and 1500 liters, on which the malolactic fermentation also takes place. The total storage in oak runs over 12 months.
Cuvée Flora Chardonnay possesses both fatness and fullness without giving up on minerals and freshness. There is already plenty of enjoyment with scent and taste; honeydew melon, fresh apricot, freshly churned butter and fresh almonds. The aftertaste is long and stringy, still without aging aromas, which will come with another year or two in bottle.
Enjoy Girlan Cuvée Flora Chardonnay with robust fish dishes, cream soups, light meat dishes, roasted or poached chicken, or as a versatile cheese wine.
Served from a spacious white wine glass at a temperature of 10-13°.
This is a particularly durable chardonnay, so if you like fully matured wine, it can be stored in a good cellar for at least 10 years from the year of harvest. We have tasted 20-year-old versions in large form…
