The aspect shows an intense straw yellow colour. Its perfume is mineral and complex, recalling mature, yellow fruits, citrus fruits and apple. The taste is soft, balanced, enchanting, elegant and persistent.
For this extraordinary wine we choose the best Chardonnay grapes from the hillside vineyards of Oltradige. They grow in different vineyards with an age between 18 and 25 years, at an altitude from 450 to 500 m above sea level. The vines are trained using the Guyot system. The vines grow in glacial moraine soils, based on volcanic porphyry.
Cantina Girlan was founded in 1923 in an ancient farmstead from the 16th century. Back then 24 winegrowers laid the foundation stones of what was later to become the winery we see today. The walls, steeped in ancient tradition, and the labyrinthine corridors of the cellar harbour the secrets of state-of-the-art winemaking technology and hold the ideal conditions for ageing our wines.
Today, about 200 greatly committed and motivated winegrowers and their families farm an area covering about 230 hectares of vineyards in the best production areas of Oltradige and Bassa Atesina. Our enologist, Gerhard Kofler, keeps in close personal contact with the winegrowers and provides his professional advice during the growing season. This beneficial exchange of expertise sets the foundations for producing highest quality wines. We pursue the following main objectives: we seek, on one hand, to showcase and promote the historic local grape varieties and on the other, to create impressive characterful wines using international grape varieties yet keeping them closely connected to the land. This is all achieved while respecting nature's flow and rhythms.
Pairing Suggestions: Steamed fish Hors d'oeuvres, Warm fish appetizers, Mussels, Risotto with vegetables, Pasta with seafood, Sea bass, Grilled Fish, Sushi-sashimi, Fresh cheese.
Maturation: Alcoholic fermentation in oak barrels of 12 and 15 hl, followed by malolactic fermentation. The aging takes place on the lees in oak barrells for 12 months and further 6 months in the bottle.
