Features
Name:
Petit Manseng Vigneti delle Dolomiti IGT White 2021
Terrain:
alluvial soils
Winery
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'honor of always bearing the same name, Franz.
Franz Haas is not just a winery, not just a brand. Franz Haas is a man, a family that has been making wine for seven generations, that has been putting its philosophy of life into wine for seven generations: the relentless pursuit of perfection. Each Franz Haas with his own touch and style.
To make superb wines-according to Franz Haas-yes, 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 leads the winery today along 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 greedy and arrogant uncle to safeguard the rights of his father's legacy, Franz Haas V, and thus ensure the continuity of the family history. He built the wine cellar-which we can still visit today-by passing it off as a barn, to defend it from his uncle's aims. With the support of a wine broker friend he then began this adventure, producing, vinifying and selling the bulk wine 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 calls 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
A grape variety native to the French Pyrenees, three rootstocks of which were given to Franz during a trip and which he immediately chose to plant upon his return to find out what they would produce.
The result was a wine very intense in aroma and vivid in freshness, so much so that it was initially thought of as a complement to Manna, the winery's flagship wine. Fortunately, the choice was made to give it a precise identity and to have it enter, by right, the Haas family range with a label of its own
Organoleptic characteristics:
Straw yellow color with golden reflections, very bright. The nose is an explosion of aromas ranging from ripe yellow fruit to citrus, from herbs to broom, and then sweet notes of vanilla and melted butter, all against a decidedly mineral background. The palate is savory, soft and round, with a powerful body and readily backed by the lively freshness that leads to a long and persistent finish of spicy and citrus returns.
