Features
Name:
Manna Vigneti delle Dolomiti IGT White 2021
Terrain:
diverse soils of dolomitic, porphyritic, sandy and marly origin
Cellar
For seven generations (since 1880), the Franz Haas winery has been handed down to the eldest son of the family, who has the responsibility and the honour of always bearing the same name, Franz.
Franz Haas is not just a winery, it is not just a brand. Franz Haas is a man, a family that has been producing wine for seven generations, that for seven generations has put its philosophy of life into wine: the untiring quest for perfection. Each Franz Haas with his own touch and style.
To make superb wines - according to Franz Haas - you need science and calculation, but it is love, passion and determination that give them character and depth.
It takes art, the kind you have in your blood, a loving creative genius like that of Franz Haas VII, who today runs the winery together with his team.
His father, Franz Haas VI, when he was only 17 years old, with the same stubbornness that would later distinguish his son, had to take legal action against his uncle, who had been greedy and arrogant, in order to safeguard the rights of his father's inheritance, Franz Haas V, and thus ensure the continuity of the family history. He built the wine cellar - which we can still visit today - passing it off as a stable, in order to defend it against his uncle's aims. With the support of a wine broker friend, he then began this adventure, producing, vinifying and selling the wine in bulk to various South Tyrolean producers.
Until 1986, he remained at the reins of the company, clashing not a little with his son. The former, more rational, the man of numbers, calculations and predictions, the latter, more psychic and human as he describes himself.
Today, Franz Haas VII is undoubtedly a man of tradition, but with the spirit of innovation and experimentation. He is not afraid of challenges, because for him wine is synonymous with life.
Description
Manna, a very unusual wine that Franz Haas dedicated with its first release in 1995 to Maria Luisa, is a cuvée of Riesling, Chardonnay, some Gewürztraminer and a small percentage of Sauvignon Blanc. It is a wine of great elegance, smoothness and minerality.
Organoleptic characteristics:
Pale golden yellow tending to darken with age. The olfactory bouquet is complex, seductive and unprecedented, composed of notes of elderberries, pistachios and rose petals. The complexity remains on the palate, with the wine being a concentrate of elegance, softness and minerality.
Storage time:
5 years
Vinification
Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc are fermented in barriques;
Riesling, Gewürztraminer and Kerner are fermented in steel tanks
Acknowledgements
2019 Luca Maroni 95/100
2019 Robert Parker 93/100
2019 James Suckling 94/100
2019 Falstaff 93/100