Tasting Notes: Lo Triolet’s Pinot Gris instantly reveals the impeccable quality winemaker, Marco Martin, aims to achieve. His style embraces a palpable mouth feel–a pleasant oil and glycerine, both on the nose and palate of all his wines. This Pinot Gris is an enigma, with extreme taut minerality on the nose, while the palate dances with exotic nuances, including honeysuckle, papaya, lemon verbena, Meyer lemon oil, gunpowder, and gravel dust.
| Valle d’Aosta, Italia. (Outside of Aosta) 5 hectares. |
Sand. White clay. | ||
| Lo Triolet. (lo TREE-oh-lay) |
Guyot. 9,000 vines/hectare. 0.7 bottle/plant yield. |
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| Marco Martin. (MAHR-koh mahr-TEEN) |
Maceration on skins for one day. Fermentation in temp controlled stainless steel tanks. | ||
| 100% Pinot Gris. | No barrel aging. | ||
| 2.0 grams per liter. | 2 months in the bottle. | ||
| 5.5 grams per liter. | 540 cases. | ||
| 13.5% by volume. | Antipasti, seafood, and penne with white truffle cream sauce. |