Ep 554:The Wines of Alto Adige, Italy

Wine for Normal People

Alcohol, Lifestyle, Arts, Education, Food, Wine, Dining, Grapes

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🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Alto Adige, in the far northeast of Italy, is a small wine region that makes incredibly high quality reds and whites. In this episode I discuss the unique terroir, grapes, and mixed culture of this region, with its heavy Germanic and Austrian influences.

I cover:

The long history of Alto Adige wine
The varied soil types and geology
The range of climates and growing conditions
The unique grapes (including Kerner, Schiava and Lagrein)
The DOCs and subzones of Alto Adige

A truly beautiful and unique Italian wine region, and one I hope I've convinced you to explore!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:15.8	I'm your host Elizabeth Schneider, author of the Wine for Normal People book and Certified Wine Dork.
0:21.4	Do you want great wines you can't find elsewhere from a curated site that's like walking
0:26.0	into a wine shop where all the wines are made by producers who respect the land,
0:30.2	care about wine quality, and make fantastic product.
0:33.2	You have to go to wine access.com slash WFMP or join my wine club, $150 for six bottles, four times a
0:41.9	year. I pick out all the wines, do the videos for them. These are amazing producers. Wineaccess.com
0:48.0	slash normal. Listen in the middle of the show for more details. Coming off, teaching the Wines of Alto Adjj and Friuli class, I got a lot of people saying,
0:59.9	oh, I'm really sad that I can't take the class, but can you direct me to a podcast on
1:04.9	Alto Adj?
1:06.4	And this was when I had the revelation that although I just taught a class on it, I have never
1:10.6	done an
1:11.4	overview show in Alto Adj. Now, there is in the catalog a show with Caroline Walk from Elena
1:18.8	Walk. It's an amazing story. She is such a poised and excellent representative for Alto Adjj.
1:26.3	And the story of Ellen O' Elena Walk is really quite amazing. Caroline
1:29.6	is her daughter taking over from Elena, who is semi-retired at this point. But we do talk about
1:36.0	Alto Adi-J. If you're a patron, you can go back and listen to that episode. But I thought,
1:40.6	okay, I just talked to class on it. It's really time to do a show on Alto Adj.
1:45.0	So before we get started on Alto Adj, of course, I need to thank the patrons, as I do every week, who keep this podcast going.
1:52.1	The community is amazing.
1:53.8	If you have not joined or taken a look at it yet, please check it out.
1:57.0	Patreon.com slash wine for normal people is how you will do that. I just posted the trip to
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