Castel Ringberg Elena Walch Tasting Room ★ 4.7
Tasting room at Elena Walch's 1620-built Castel Ringberg above Lake Caldaro, pouring the single-vineyard Castel Ringberg Riserva line and the Beyond the Clouds white from 20 hectares.
Wein.Kaltern's village wine.house on Caldaro's market square, pouring the full Caldaro grower-village roster across 18 producers with regional speck and cheese boards.
Address: Piazza Principale 3, 39052 Caldaro sulla Strada del Vino, Italy, Alto Adige
Tasting room at Elena Walch's 1620-built Castel Ringberg above Lake Caldaro, pouring the single-vineyard Castel Ringberg Riserva line and the Beyond the Clouds white from 20 hectares.
Vinotheque and 18th-century porphyry cellars at Castel Rametz on the Maia Alta moraine hill, planted with the first Pinot Noir vine in South Tyrol in 1860 and pouring five estate wines with house Kaiserspeck.
Restored Renaissance manor vinotheque at Ansitz Pillhof in Frangart near Bolzano, with a walk-in climate cabinet pouring top Alto Adige labels alongside Italian and international references in a Mediterranean courtyard.
Pur Sudtirol's flagship Bolzano gourmet market and wine bar near Walther-Platz, pouring 600+ Alto Adige references from 500 producers and farms with paired regional speck, cheese and apple boards.
Cooperative tasting room and wine shop at Cantina Tramin in the Werner Tscholl-designed vine-branch building, pouring Gewurztraminer, Pinot Bianco and the Epokale and Nussbaumer crus from the Termeno terraces.
Cooperative winecenter and elevated winelounge at Cantina Kaltern in Caldaro, pouring Kalterersee Schiava and the Quintessenz and Saltner lines from 420 hectares across 530 grower families.