Cantina Terlano, Alto Adige DOC (Italy) Gewürztraminer 2019

 A couple of evenings ago, I asked my husband to open a Gewürztraminer for the pork pot stickers on our dinner menu.  I was thinking of an Alsatian wine that we had bought recently.  The wine he poured was delicious with its scrumptious floral, lychee, rose petal, green apple aromas.  The flavors of apple, pear, a little mango, and a touch of ginger were balanced by crisp acidity.   I was enjoying the wine very much but was surprised that it was not as full bodied as I expected, and it had crisp acidity.  That’s unusual for a Gewürztraminer, because it is considered a low acid grape variety.  I looked for the bottle and found that it was not from Alsace, but from the Alto Adige region of Italy, which is a cooler region than Alsace.  Alto Adige is in northeastern Italy in the southern Alps and the Dolomites at an altitude of 3300 feet.  Alsace, in contrast, is the in northeastern France between the Vosges Mountains and the Rhine River, with a semi continental climate and warmer temperatures.