CASE PRICE = $18.99 per bottle (add 12+ quantity to your basket)
Notes from the Winemaker:Pinot Grigio's sister variety, now quite rare in Friuli, is well worth discovering in Silvio's hands...
In typically Jermann style, its character, flavors and aromas appear to shine through in focused intensity.
Silvio's magic combines with that of Friulian soil to elicit every Pinot Bianco nuance in well balanced elegance.
Tasting Notes:Brilliant straw yellow to golden, intense, very persistent bouquet, pleasantly fruity, with distinct notes of muskmelon. Dry on the palate, mellow and well balanced, extremely persistent.
Ratings & Reviews
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:"The 2009 Pinot Bianco offers up plenty of ripe, tropical fruit in a fairly full-bodied, intense style. This is decidedly riper than the cooler, more aromatic Pinot Grigio. Anticipated maturity: 2011-2014.
These new releases from Silvio Jermann include a number of fabulous bottles. In particular, I was impressed with the top 2008s, a vintage where the cool minerality of the year prevails over the house’s typically lush style, an approach I tend to find less interesting. Jermann has a new red on the horizon, the Pignolo Vigna Truss, from recently purchased hillside vineyards in Dolegna, the home of his massive, new cellar. Previously, Jermann’s Pignolo had mostly come from the flats of Villanova, a far less prestigious village in Isonzo, rather than the Collio. I tasted all of the 2009 entry-level whites from screwcaps. Readers should be aware that Jermann is owned by my wife’s uncle. I have always viewed education as an important component of wine criticism. An article on Friuli without these wines would have been incomplete and ultimately the consumer would have been poorer for their exclusion. For those reasons I have chosen to include the wines in this report. Neither my wife nor I have any financial or other interest, direct or indirect, in this property." - Antonio Galloni (Feb 2011)
Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (2010 Vintage):"Dark yellow. Pungent aromas of white stone fruit, wax and flowers. A laser-like freshness nicely lifts the white peach and green apple flavors. This excellent, very well-balanced pinot bianco actually reminds you of the variety (rather than chardonnay, as is too often the case in Italy); a little more concentration and I would have awarded it an outstanding score, but as it is, I love this wine's purity." - Ian D'Agata (Sept/Oct '11)
Excellent with all seafood, including crudo (raw fish), and mature cheeses.
