Cantina Terlan

A winery that needs no introduction, that of Terlano, which for decades has represented the best that Alto Adige can express in terms of finesse and longevity. Founded in 1893 in the town of the same name not far from Merano, the Terlano winery is one of the most avant-garde producers' cooperatives not only in all of South Tyrol, but also in the entire Italian peninsula, to the point that it can be taken as a symbol of the most perfect cooperation mechanism in the wine industry. Its 143 members cultivate a total of 165 hectares of vineyards, amounting to a total annual production that far exceeds one million bottles. Staggering numbers that go hand in hand with the region's best wines, whites and reds, which are punctually capable of agreeing like few others with public and critics. Thus Antonio Galloni of Wine Advocate in 2011: "The best South Tyrolean wines I tasted this year came from Cantina Terlano. Simply put, they are benchmark wines. Wines that cannot be missing from the interior of any important winery." A road, that of absolute quality, which the members of the Terlan Winery have taken with conviction over the decades, and which has earned them fame and recognition on the Italian and international wine markets. So here are pinot blanc, chardonnay, pinot gris, müller thurgau, gewürztraminer and sauvignon blanc, then again lagrein, schiava, pinot noir and torilan: grape varieties that are exalted in their essentiality when processed in traditional labels, and that become names-now-sounding when interpreted in "label-selections": Terlaner, Winkl, Kreuth, Vorberg, Gries, Siebeneich, Siemegg, Monticol, Quarz, Nova Domus, Lunare, Porphyr. In a nutshell, names that over the years have rightly won international prestige and notoriety, transforming the Terlan winery itself into a true institution not only of Alto Adige wine, but of the entire Italian wine scene.