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Haložan White, Pullus - 2021

Name: Haložan White, Pullus
Brand: Pullus-Ptujska Klet
SKU: 47081
Price: 13.96 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Item # 47081 1L

An everyday, easy, and off-dry white that is perfect for a midweek dinner. A blend of Welschriesling, Riesling, Chardonnay, Furmint, and Pinot Blanc, it is aged on the lees in stainless steel. Aromas of orchard fruit and white flowers would pair well with fižolova mineštra.

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Color

White

Vintage

2021

Country

Slovenia

Region

Podravje

Producer

Pullus-Ptujska Klet

Grape Variety

Welschriesling

Chardonnay

Furmint

Riesling

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Staff Pick Notes

This wine is a no-brainer at least for me. Slovenia offers some wonderful wines at great prices, this being a perfect example. If you have read my other wine staff picks, you would know I definitely have a type and this checks all my boxes. Fresh, bright, light, and inexpensive are my go-tos. I have tasted enough natural wine for a lifetime and more than anything appreciate a well-made clean wine that refreshes. While this wine is marked as off-dry, I know some German Rieslings that are called dry that are sweeter than this. Generous in fruit and flavor!

- JGM

Glossary

Riesling

Though the trend is now in the other direction, for many years Riesling was known for producing wines with little alcohol and some residual sugar - too sweet for many modern wine drinkers. Though it's now cultivated worldwide, Riesling is nearly synonymous with German wine, and that country's winemakers have lately begun to produce some very exciting dry versions. They are careful to retain the delightful honeyed, flinty flavors that the best sweet Rieslings have always displayed. Alsace, of...

Welschriesling

An Austrian white grape that produces fresh, early-drinking dry wines and some impressive dessert wines. No relation whatsoever to Riesling, by the way.

Chardonnay

From Champagne to Chablis, it's hard (not to mention unpleasant) to avoid this famous white variety. During a huge popularity surge beginning in the late 1980s, Chardonnay plantings have increased dramatically -- not only in California's wine country, with which the variety is nearly synonymous, but also in Burgundy (its original, Old World home) and just about everywhere else in the winemaking world. It is a flexible, eager-to-please grape, responding well to just about anything a winemaker...