Tasting Note: Elegant, youthful fruit, gentle, just adumbrated notes of gooseberries and fine herbs. Clear and straight on the palate, nice freshness, well bodied, persistent in the finish. An elegant style Sauvignon. Food Pairing: Pasta dishes with tomato and fresh basil, salt water fish, seafood and shellfish. Details Country: Italy Region: Südtirol/Alto Adige Grape variety: Sauvignon Vintage: 2011 Alcohol: 13.5% Bottle size: 75cl Closure: Cork Regrettably, this product is non-exportable Elena Walch wines are grown exclusively in the Castel Ringberg estate sited on a steep hillside with loose soils consisting of clay and sand deposited by the Adige river. Only fully ripe grapes are selected and used. Before soft pressing the grapes get macerated for approximately 6 hours. Clarification through refrigeration. A part ferments under controlled temperature (18°C) and has a long contact with the yeast. The rest ferments in barrique. Assemblage shortly before bottling, afterwa