Markus Prackwieser Gump Hof Alto Adige Praesulis Pinot Noir 2021 MARQUE with cheese or a fruit

with cheese or a fruit tart

The 2021 was a cool

sitting just north of the Bordeaux suburbs on a tongue of gravel that pokes south of where the Haut-Medoc proper begins

veterans of California's natural wine movement

with finely integrated tannins that give it both structure and finesse

Markus Prackwieser Gump Hof Alto Adige Praesulis Pinot Noir 2021 MARQUE with cheese or a fruitMarkus Prackwieser's family has farmed the Gump Hof for more than two centuries, on steep terraces at the entrance to Alto Adige's Isarco Valley, in the shadow of the Sciliar massif. His Praesulis line named for the nearby Castle of Presule comes from the estate's highest, oldest plots. Pinot Noir is a rarity in this otherwise white wine corner of the Alps; it ripens here only because the slopes are warm enough by day and cool enough by night to draw