Markus Prackwieser Gump Hof Alto Adige Weissburgunder 2023 CS20230516 It's the kind of white

It's the kind of white you can pour without ceremony

where he made his name as one of California's leading voices on Mourvedre

These are both native to Eastern Europe and thrive in this continental climate

It takes roughly ten kilos of plums to make one liter of this

Markus Prackwieser Gump Hof Alto Adige Weissburgunder 2023 CS20230516 It's the kind of whiteThe Prackwieser family has farmed Gump Hof for over two centuries, perched on steep southwest facing slopes above the Eisack Valley in Alto Adige. Markus took the reins in the mid 1990s and built a reputation for some of the most precise whites in the region. This Weissburgunder (Pinot Bianco) comes from quartz porphyry soils between roughly 1,300 and 1,800 feet, where daytime warmth from the Ora wind off Lake Garda meets cold alpine air spilling down