Trentino-Alto Adige

Trentino-Alto Adige brings together Alto Adige/Südtirol in the north and Trentino in the south. Alto Adige vineyards range from about 200 to 1,000 metres. Cool nights and mountain winds help keep the wines fresh and fruity. Bolzano is associated with powerful Lagrein, while dry Val Venosta favours Pinot Blanc, Riesling and Pinot Noir. The Isarco Valley is closely associated with Kerner, Sylvaner and Müller-Thurgau.

In Piana Rotaliana, Teroldego ripens fully. The wines are deeply coloured and medium-bodied, with acidity, moderate tannin, red fruit, violets and sometimes bitter almond. Nosiola can dry on straw mats for at least six months before it is pressed for Vino Santo, an intensely flavoured sweet wine. Trentodoc follows the classic method, with secondary fermentation in bottle, riddling and disgorgement. Vineyard altitude affects ripening and grape acidity.

Producer profiles

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• Azienda Agricola ForadoriA family estate on the Campo Rotaliano plain in Trentino that rebuilt Teroldego's reputation from a bulk red sold in demijohns to an internationally recognised, age-worthy grape, through massal selection, biodynamic farming, and a cellar running on native yeast, neutral oak, and amphorae.
• Cantina GirlanAlto Adige cooperative of 200 winegrowing families farming altitude parcels above Bolzano; Pinot Nero from the Mazon cru is the house speciality, with ten consecutive Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri for the Trattmann Riserva from 2010 to 2019.
• Cantina KurtatschA 190-family cooperative in Cortaccia, Alto Adige, farming 190 hand-harvested hectares across altitude-matched sites for whites and reds.
• Cantina LavisA Trentino mountain cooperative founded by fourteen grape growers in 1948, now farming 400 hectares across elevations from 250 to 550 metres. Aromatic whites built on altitude and acidity, one red in French oak.
• Cantina Produttori Bolzano Soc. Agric. coop.A 224-family cooperative in Bolzano formed in 2001 from the 1908 Gries and 1930 Santa Magdalena cooperatives, farming 350 hectares across nine Alto Adige sub-zones at altitudes between 200 and 1,000 meters.
• Cantina TerlanGrower cooperative in Alto Adige's Terlan village making mineral whites from volcanic slopes, built to age ten to fifteen years.
• Cantina ToblinoTrentino cooperative farming the largest certified organic vineyard area in the province, producing Nosiola, Vino Santo, and Trentodoc sparkling wine from a lake valley caught between Alpine cold and Lake Garda warmth.
• Cantina Valle IsarcoAlpine cooperative in Alto Adige's Valle Isarco, farming Sylvaner, Kerner, Müller Thurgau and Grüne Veltliner at elevations up to 1,000 metres. Founded 1961; 135 members across 11 municipalities.
• CavitTrentino cooperative group making Terrazze della Luna Pinot Grigio and rosato, Vino Santo Trentino DOC and sparkling wines fermented in the bottle.
• Ferrari TrentoThe Trentino sparkling wine house that planted Chardonnay in Italy before anyone else, making traditional-method wines from mountain vineyards since 1902.
• Kellerei KalternCentury-old cooperative on Alto Adige's largest lake, producing the region's benchmark Schiava alongside biodynamic single-vineyard Lagrein and Chardonnay from 590 grower families.
• Köfererhof WeingutNeustift/Novacella estate for fresh, aromatic Valle Isarco whites, including a Kerner fermented and aged in stainless steel.