While the Pinot Grigio is an all-time favorite at PRIMA, the one Valle Isarco cuvée we prize the most and get the least is their Kerner. This hybrid cross between Riesling and the red Schiava (a.k.a. Trollinger) grapes was developed to showcase...

It’s not hard to find Pinot Grigio out there.  There’s a virtual ocean of it made from the flatlands of Trentino and the Veneto available for your easy-drinking pleasure.  But those inexpensive but often character-deficient PGs give...

The late Franz Haas was the seventh Franz in a long line of Haases from Montagna and was the man responsible for elevating the family business to one of the most revered in the entire Adige Valley.  Franz approached his work with an incredible...

Case Price $192; $16/bottle on orders of 12 bottles or more Let’s face it. There is an ocean of innocuous Pinot Grigio grown in northern Italy. As soon as someone got the memo that we Americans would like it, they filled the flatlands of the...

For an area so associated with high quality whites (80% of the production), it’s somewhat hard to believe that in Alto Adige, the most widely planted grape variety is actually the red called Schiava.  So ubiquitous are the distinctive wooden...