Alto Adige, an Alpine Weinparadies

Joel Butler MW 2.15 3.24.2024

Vineyards in Cortaccia/Kurtatsch, foreground, looking across Adige Valley to vineyards in Mazzon and Egna on opposite slope (JBMW)

Forgive the German title above, but for centuries until the end of WWI, this most northerly region of Italy was actually part of Austria under the Hapsburg Empire, known as Südtirol-South Tyrol. “Returned” (begrudgingly) to I…