Fontanasanta Manzoni Bianco

2019

3.8

Region

Italy › Trentino-Alto Adige › IGP Vigneti delle Dolomiti

Type

white · still

Grapes

Manzoni Bianco

Alcohol

12.5%

Volume

750 mL

Sugar

0.6 g/L

Tasting Notes(3)

Boris11 November 2022· Wix Kyiv Office

3.8

Time has a positive effect on this wine. A sewer turned into struck matches and boiled corn. Less reductive, it gave space for fruits, citrus, yellow flowers, almonds and baked apples. It's round, fresh, and voluminous with a persistent aftertaste. Not for everyone - it has a character you either love or hate.

Boris8 June 2022· Wix Kyiv Office

About

100% Manzoni Bianco, an early-20th-century crossing of Riesling and Pinot Bianco. Foradori organically farms and hand-harvests 3 hectares on clay-limestone soils in the Fontanasanta hills above Trento. Destemmed fruit with 3-4-day skin maceration; aged 8 months in acacia barrel, concrete and clay.

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Considering my previous review one would think that I am not going to taste this wine ever again. But I've managed to get few bottles for an amazing price, so now I have a chance to see its development over almost 2 years. Sulfur compounds are still present, but now in lower amounts making more room for other things like citrus, ginger, sauerkraut - all that on the same canvas of struck matches. And while nose is still questionable, Manzoni Bianco is tasty, with good acidity, citrus flavours mixed with field flowers and long finish. Confusing experience for those who love crazy wines.

My second Foradori wine, but this time I am disappointed. Low intervention philosophy might be a good thing, but in this particular case result is rather faulty thanks to excessive amounts of sulfur compounds (dihydrogen sulfide, I am smelling you, and I don't quite enjoy the process). So on the canvas of struck matches you may find silicon lighter and citrus notes. But than you make a sip and it's tasty! Very good refreshing acidity, citrus flavours. Tasty, but the overly faulty nose is killing me.