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Ansitz Dolomytos Sacker
Bianco
2016
4.4
Region
Italy › Trentino-Alto Adige › Alto Adige › Vino
Type
white · still
Grapes
Field Blend, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Blanc, Assyrtiko, Pinot Gris, Riesling
Alcohol
14.5%
Volume
750 mL
Tasting Notes(1)
4.4
Blind, and the aromatics had me before I knew what it was: lime with sardines (a profile I'm always pulled by), smoke, malt, boiled buckwheat. Great acidity. Salty, dense, the kind of weight that suggests bottle age - I'd have guessed at least 10 years. The blind read pulled me toward Emidio Pepe territory. Great acidity, salinity, structure all locking together. For all the aromatic complexity, it's surprisingly light on the palate. Over time more lemon and propolis emerge, then flowers and ripe yellow fruit. An incredible wine.
About
The 'Dolomytos' is Ansitz Dolomytos Sacker's flagship white - a unique field-blend assemblage of Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, and Pinot Blanc with Assyrtiko and other international and Greek varieties. Vineyards at Auna di Sotto sul Renon, above Bolzano, on Alto Adige slopes Rainer Zierock identified as his ideal site.
Vinification follows the estate's signature recipe: gentle pressing, spontaneous fermentation, then ageing on the lees without added sulphur for at least 2 years in 'cigarillos' - 150-litre barrels stored in a 70-metre-deep gallery at constant temperature and humidity. Bottled unfiltered, then a further 1-2 years in bottle before release.
Style: oxidative-leaning, structured, ageworthy - more Greek-island/Jura adjacent than typical Alto Adige white. The 2016 reads as fully mature: salinity, smoke, lime, propolis, ripe yellow fruit, the kind of complexity that needed every year of its bottle age to come together.