THE WINE HUNTER AWARD 2020: 4 ROSSI & 1 GOLD FOR CANTINA TOBLINO

The Wine Hunter Award & Merano Wine Festival: “Back to the roots”

 

The WineHunter Award is the award of the Merano Wine Festival, established by Helmuth Koecher, of excellence and high quality awarded annually to wine and culinary products, spirits and beers.

The prize is awarded to national and international products which, following a careful evaluation, reach a minimum score of 90 points out of 100, and guarantees the final consumer the superior quality of the product.

About 7,000 wines tasted of which 3,100 awarded by The WineHunter. The Red Award (90 – 92.99 points) 2,300 wines and the Gold Award (93 – 95.99 points) 800 wines. Of the latter, the best make up the TOP 100 from which the winners of the most coveted award, the Platinum Award (96 – 100 points) will emerge.

In addition to the wines, the guide also presents 380 excellences in the gastronomic field divided into the Food – Spirits – Beer categories and selected from over 500 products tasted, in addition to those awarded in 2019 whose recognition is valid for two years. 240 products that get the Red Award and 140 the Gold, while the TOP 50 nominates the best gastronomic products to the Platinum Award that is assigned in October.

The guide also proposes the publication of the TOP 5 of each region, a selection of wines chosen from those that best represent the different Italian regional territories according to Helmuth Köcher.

The Wine Hunter Award 2020 recognized to Cantina Toblino wines the following awards:

GOLD Prà al Pinot bianco Trentino Doc 2018 Bio
ROSSO da Fòra Manzoni bianco Trentino Doc 2018 Bio
ROSSO Foll Chardonnay Trentino Doc 2018 Bio
ROSSO Vino Santo Trentino Doc 2004
ROSSO Antares Trento Doc 2016 Brut Millesimato

Merano Wine Festival, back to the roots: The WineHunter Helmuth Köcher faces COVID-19 with courage and organization and confirms the dates of the 29th edition scheduled from 6 to 10 November 2020 without upsetting the traditional format, returning to its origins in that distant 1992 where the history of the most glamorous food & wine event was written in the world.

A beginning 2020 full of news at Cantina Toblino, many important collaborations, a growing attention from food and wine critics and professionals from the world of wine…but not only!

This 2020 saw the launch on the market (not yet the official presentation) of five new wines belonging to the Crus – ‘«Vènt’».

The Crus – ‘«Vènt’» were created thanks to the collaboration between our agronomists, winemakers and Luca d’Attoma. A project that starts from afar to enhance the terroir of the Valle dei Laghi which thanks to the incessant action of the wind Ora del Garda and Pelèr of the Dolomites, can count on a mild climate, loose terrains, rich in skeleton of archaic origin, created during the course of the time from the Sarca river.

Thus was born the story of ‘«Vènt’»…a story where each element is inextricably linked to the other, just as it happens here, in the Valle dei Laghi…

Everything starts from the wind, the maximum expression of a territory like the Valle dei Laghi, Foll is a unique, complex, lively and elegant Chardonnay.

The Dolomite rock, as the founding element of the soil on which our vines grow, Las is a round, full-bodied, tenacious Lagrein.

Our attachment to history, represented by a capital that delimits our vineyards, Praà l is an incredibly harmonious Pinot Blanc.

The importance of people, the openness to what comes from outside and that we do not know at the beginning, Da Fòra is an intriguing, fragrant, new Manzoni Bianco.

Passion, from the vine to the glass, perceptible in the fresh air in the Valle dei Laghi, Baticòr is an extremely elegant, delicate and refined Pinot Noir.

A story still to be written…