2018 | Alois Lageder | Forra Manzoni

A rich, layered white blend with a rich, flavorful palate of dried apples, pears, tile and flint.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The Alois Lageder 2018 Manzoni Bianco Fórra (with 5,000 bottles made) shows an off-golden color with some faint amber highlights. The wine is perfumed, but not in a pungent or cloying way, with yellow rose, acacia flower and beeswax. Those more abundant fruit tones cede to delicate mineral nuances that give the wine linearity and a good sense of focus. The wine is fermented in oak on the skins for 10 days, and this explains its more saturated color. It then sees an additional nine months of oak aging.

• James Suckling: A rich, layered white blend with a rich, flavorful palate of dried apples, pears, tile and flint. It’s full-bodied, dense and flavorful.

Producer Information

Alois Lageder is a renowned wine producer in Alto Adige, Italy's northernmost wine region. The estate was established in 1823 and has been family owned and operated since. It makes a wide range of wines from both native and international grape varieties, including Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Pinot Bianco, Schiava and Lagrein. The estate consists of around 110 hectares (272 acres) of vineyard land across the region, including plots in Magrè, Cortaccia, Bolzano, San Michele and Appiano. This diversity of vineyard, which covers a vast range of exposures, soils, and mesoclimates, means that Alois Lageder can have a wide range of grape varieties, depending on the terroir of the individual site. The main range includes three product lines. The top wines (Masterpieces) come from some of Lageder's best vineyard sites. The selection features mostly single variety wines, though the intriguing Casòn duo are a Viognier-Petit Manseng, and a Tannat-based red blend.

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