Experiences with Cantina Terlan 'Terlaner grande cuvee'

[Sake_Schoorl]

I have the possibility to buy 3 bottles of the 2015 vintage rather cheap (220 euros).

Any experiences with this bottle/vintage? It’s 90 percent Pinot Blanc so I would not expect something very special but I see retail prices above 150 euros a bottle…

[markjchambers]

I don’t have much experience with Pinot Blanc, but I’ve had their Vorberg Reserve which is very good (and a lot cheaper around $35).

[Ron_Slye]

Same here with the Vorberg Reserve, which is amazing. But yes it appears to be cheaper than the Terlander Grande Cuvee you are contemplating, even if the 220 is for all three.

[Brian_G_r_a_f_s_t_r_o_m]

That is an amazingly bad price for the wine. I had a bottle recently and thought it was fine/good, but not a rebuy for me.

[Dan_Kravitz]

I think Cantina Terlano is the best producer of Pinot Blanc anywhere, perhaps the only producer to make great wine from this grape. Having said that, the Vorbourg is great wine at an astonishingly reasonable price. I have been tempted to buy the Grande Cuvee but cannot justify the price here of over $200 a bottle. At your price, which corresponds to under $100 a bottle, I would give it a try… but I can’t find it here for that price.

Dan Kravitz

[Brian_G_r_a_f_s_t_r_o_m]

I think Cantina Terlano is the best producer of Pinot Blanc anywhere, perhaps the only producer to make great wine from this grape. Having said that, the Vorbourg is great wine at an astonishingly reasonable price. I have been tempted to buy the Grande Cuvee but cannot justify the price here of over $200 a bottle. At your price, which corresponds to under $100 a bottle, I would give it a try… but I can’t find it here for that price.

Dan Kravitz

I must be mixing this up with another bottling of theirs; the bottling I was talking about is the Terlaner Cuvee, which I am now gathering is different than the Grande Cuvée, and cost less than $30.

[Otto_Forsberg]

I think Cantina Terlano is the best producer of Pinot Blanc anywhere, perhaps the only producer to make great wine from this grape. Having said that, the Vorbourg is great wine at an astonishingly reasonable price. I have been tempted to buy the Grande Cuvee but cannot justify the price here of over $200 a bottle. At your price, which corresponds to under $100 a bottle, I would give it a try… but I can’t find it here for that price.

Dan Kravitz

I must be mixing this up with another bottling of theirs; the bottling I was talking about is the Terlaner Cuvee, which I am now gathering is different than the Grande Cuvée, and cost less than $30.

Lol yes The Grande Cuvée is their flagship bottling (with late-released Rarities), the basic Terlaner Cuvée is their most rudimentary entry-level white and even here in Finland, where all alcohol is silly expensive, it costs only around 15€.

[Sake_Schoorl]

It was 220 for the three so about 73 euros a bottle.
After some thinking I passed, I just don’t know the producer good enough and wallet-wise; Christmas is coming;)

[Otto_Forsberg]

It was 220 for the three so about 73 euros a bottle.
After some thinking I passed, I just don’t know the producer good enough and wallet-wise; Christmas is coming;)

Shame, that would’ve been a good price. Cantina Terlano is probably the best co-op I know along with Produttori del Barbaresco, and Terlano’s Vorberg Riserva is one of the most impressive white wines I know. While impressively weighty in their youth, I’m not as fond of them while they’re young compared to how they perform when they’re +10-15 yo.

Have not had Rarity or Grande Cuvée, but at 73€/btl, I would’ve pulled the trigger. If a producer can make a white wine that will deliver for that price, it’s Terlano.