Name: Kelleri-Cantina Andrian Doran Chardonnay Alto Adige DOC 2022 x 6
Brand: Alepat Taylor
SKU: ALE219
Price: 600.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

Chardonnay

2022

"The international grape variety Chardonnay has become an integral part of Terlano's vineyards and gives us fresh wines with a very interesting tropical fruit component every year, not only in our cuvée but also vinified by variety, which can be combined in an extremely diverse way."
Rudi Kofler

Colour: bright, sparkling straw yellow
Smell: The scent of this Chardonnay releases exotic fruity olfactory sensations, with hints of banana, quince, passion fruit, mango and sugarmelon. But also a hint of lemon balm characterizes this white wine.
Taste: With a hint of pear, the Chardonnay is soft and harmonious on the palate paired with slightly sweet exotic fruit components. The slightly salty mineral note makes this wine very smooth and gives it an interesting volume.

The year 2022 began with a very dry and mild winter. A cool spring slightly delayed the budding of the vines. Due to a very sunny and warm May, the growth deficit could already be made up for by flowering. In the earliest locations, the first flowering was observed in mid-May. The beautiful weather then led to a rapid flowering process. In the higher vineyards, the vine flowering was already finished at the beginning of June. Due to the record-breaking hot and dry summer, there were few problems with fungal diseases overall, but the vines did reach their limits in some cases due to the lack of rainfall. Precipitation and heat thunderstorms at the end of July and beginning of August compensated for this water shortage, which avoided drought and associated quality damage. An early harvest could therefore be looked forward to quite relaxed. The harvest began in the earliest locations on 24 August. Fully ripe and extremely healthy grapes with slightly lower acidity values were the result.

South Tyrol is one of the smallest wine-growing regions in Italy. Thanks to its geographical location at the intersection of the Alpine north and the Mediterranean south, it is also one of the most multifaceted. Countless generations have shaped South Tyrol as a wine country, where winegrowers cultivate vines in different climate zones, with changing soil types and at altitudes of 200 to 1,000 metres. Authentic wines with an independent character are produced here, with the varietal focus on white wine: around 60 percent of the wine-growing area is planted with white grape varieties and only 40 percent with red grape varieties.

The towering peaks of the Alps protect South Tyrol in the north from rough Atlantic northerly currents, while from the south the country is characterized by Mediterranean influences. This results in large temperature differences between day and night, which ensure elegant ripeness.
Mountain groups such as the Adamello also fulfil a protective function to the south. As a result, the annual amount of precipitation is only about a third compared to the southern foothills of the Alps and the intensity of sunlight is higher. These climatic conditions are reminiscent of wine-growing regions such as the Swiss Valais.
When the sun appears behind the eastern mountains of Terlano on one of the 300 days of sunshine, it is already high in the sky. This is because the wine region is oriented south to southwest. Direct solar radiation is higher due to the lower density of the atmosphere, and diffuse radiation is lower at the same time. This increases the difference between sunny and shady slopes.

Microclimate in Terlano
Continental climate (Cfa according to Köppen-Geiger)

Hours of sunshine: ø 2135/year
Maximum temperatures: 38.2 °C
Average temperatures: 12.9 °C
Minimum temperatures: -10.7°C
Precipitation: ø 558 mm/year
Average global radiation: 150.1 W/m²
Winds:
- North foehn: cool, dry fall wind
- Ora: valley wind system from the south, air sucked into the valleys from the Po Valley