From a visit to the Piana Rotaliana, it is clear that things are moving, and the studies of the Edmund Mach Foundation are helping to chart the way toward a greater understanding of grape variety and territory.
I confess: I hadn’t returned to the Piana Rotaliana for many, many years.
I fell in love in the early 1990s of Elisabetta Foradori‘s Teroldego I followed for years.
Then a few more fleeting tastings at Vinitaly without much excitement, not even toward those wines for which I had once fallen in love, too different from the original philosophy.
So I immediately accepted the invitation of Civilization of Drinking for the “Rotalian Meetings” of this year.
And for Teroldego: good news.
A well-articulated event between cultural encounters (comparison with other territories), scientific (interesting morning at the Fondazione E. Mach with excellent lectures by Professor Mattivi on the tannic aspects of Teroldego in comparison with other grape varieties and on the morphology of the Rotalian soil) and seminars: comparisons of various Teroldego (with outgoing reserves presented by our editor-in-chief Stefania Vinciguerra) or in comparison-slightly forced-with Etna wines.
These are grape varieties with opposite characteristics.
The new studies on Teroldego and the Piana Rotaliana (which is not a plain but a plateau over 250 meters, practically as high as the mythical mountain of Reims) have not substantially changed ancient knowledge but have supported it with a flood of data favoring a better interpretation of the details and cultivation of the vine thanks to more precise choices of rootstocks and clones (moreover, few the latter), more precise fermentations on the thermal, extractive, and control of “reductions.”
Between a few classics and some novelties in the Rotaliana there is good drinking, perhaps great excellence is lacking but a large cohort of promising young people is pawing, with fresh ideas supported by a technical, solid and modern background. We are confident because the generational turnover of established companies is very promising. Below is a small list of our best tastings.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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