2005 Pinot Bianco Rarity Alto Adige Cantina Terlan

This deep and complex, maturing wine is proof that pinot bianco can give wines as great as any chardonnay. Concentrated and delicate with remarkable vitality for its age. A very long, smoky and mineral finish. Drink or hold this almost timeless masterpiece.

Crystalline deep straw yellow. Perfumed nose offers ripe apricot, yellow apple and crystallized lemon peel, complicated by marzipan and powdered stone. Wonderfully sappy, silky and deep, with the crushed-lemon, apple butter, and sweet spice flavors complemented by saline minerality and spectacular inner-mouth perfume. The bright acidity gives the very long finish an outstanding thrust, while suave and dense with hints of apple butter, marzipan and showcasing marvellous acid-sugar-fruit balance. This library wine spent ten years on the fine lees, and was just released, so the vintage you are reading is not a typo 2018 - 2030.