100% Pinot Noir. Mouth filling and velvety, rich and elegant body with mild tannins. A fine aroma, delicious and fruity on the nose. From high altitude vineyards, this Pinot is light on its feet with a range of complex flavours. Not only keen fruit - plum, cherry, rhubarb and pomegranate - but also dried herbs and a dusting of red earth. The palate is fresh and lean with oak spices adding to the picture. Dry and savoury on the finish. A great quality red wine from Alpine wine region of Alto Adige, Italy.

Goes well with: Grilled meat, roasts, game and mature cheese.

Back in 1869, the founder of the Wilhelm Walch Winery showed visionary zeal in converting a simple Jesuit convent into a deep underground cellar, right in the heart of the small medieval town of Tramin in the beautiful, world-class winemaking district of Alto Adige. In the last decades, the Walch family has carefully expanded their historical winery and purchased several vineyards that have thrived in the rich soil of the region. The premium quality of their products has gained respectability throughout the entire wine district.

ABOUT WILHELM WALCH

The Wilhelm Walch winery lies in the traditional wine village of Tramin in Alto Adige, the northernmost Italian wine-producing region. Since its founding in 1869, it has remained in the hands of the founders, the Walchs, who have decisively influenced the development of Alto Adige wine culture.

The wine estate puts emphasis on the typicity of Alto Adige and its local wine varieties – classic wines in a modern and straightforward style – while rounding out the broad palette of wines with international varieties. The quality of the wines are a testament to professional expertise in the cellar and meticulous work in the steep vineyards at the feet of the Dolomites.

The founder, Wilhelm Walch, ran a successful restaurant and a distillery in Vorarlberg. When he decided to enlarge his business but was not able to obtain a license, he moved with his five adult offspring to nearby Alto Adige. He acquired a former Jesuit monastery in Tramin and founded the wine estate. He showed good business sense, bought vineyards in the most promising areas of Tramin and Caldaro and turned the family business in short time into one of the largest wine estates in Alto Adige.

The Walch family, now in the fifth generation, still manages the wine estate. In the nearly 150 years of its history, modern new buildings have enlarged and augmented the historic estate. Since then, about 100 contracted grapegrowers deliver their precious grapes to the family to finally sum up the family-owned vineyards.