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Pinot Bianco 'Vial' 2020

2G

Due Bicchieri - very good to excellent wines in their respective categories

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Pinot Bianco 'Vial' 2019

93

The 2019 Alto Adige Pinot Bianco Vial reveals a luminous appearance and brilliant golden highlights. The bouquet opens quickly to reveal orchard fruit, quince and Golden Delicious apple. Beyond that lovey primary fruit, the wine also offers background tones of almond, turmeric spice and crushed limestone. Grapes are sourced from an east-facing site with loamy conglomerate soils with chalky gravel and porphyry sand. The is a lean-bodied wine, but there is enough power and natural heft to pair with shellfish or white meat. You get terrific value, and this 60,000-bottle release will hit the market in October 2020. I recommend this vintage if you're looking for a special and well-priced, crisp white from Northern Italy

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Pinot Bianco 'Vial' 2019

88

The 2019 Pinot Bianco Vial from Kellerei Kaltern is savory and packed with earthy, mineral intensity. It opens up with notes of iodine and white smoke, which blows off to reveal crisp green apple and wild herbs. Acid-driven tension thrives through the entire experience over a feminine frame, remaining cool-toned with salty minerals and inner florals building toward the close