Pinot Blanc «Fernand Cina»

Hard-working and complementary are the adjectives used to describe the brothers Cina, Manfred and Damian. Both studied viticulture and oenology, but above all learned the trade. From a very young age with their parents Fernand & Rose-Marie, Saturdays were spent in the vineyard rather than on the football pitch with friends. Despite the hard work, Manfred and Damian saw the great development potential of their father's business early on and rightly envisioned a promising future.

The Cina brothers have been working in their business for more than 30 years, surrounded by a meticulous and enthusiastic team. Their motives? Always one step ahead, producing excellent wines, developing innovative grape varieties in Valais, being positive and, above all, close to the customer. The winery is known for its diverse range of specialties. They cultivate an exceptionally large number of grape varieties on 20 hectares of their own vineyards, which enables them to offer around 40 different wines.

In their work in the vineyard, they focus on natural and quality-oriented care of the vines. The work in the vines is the most important activity in the annual calendar and forms the basic building block for high-quality wine. From the vine to vinification and bottling, the two brothers cultivate the wine with great dedication. Wine production is far more than just a job for them, it is a passion and a pleasure for both of them to marvel at this phenomenon every year and to be a part of it.

Pinot Blanc (Weissburgunder) is a widespread white grape variety that belongs to the Burgundy family and is thus one of the absolute classics among the European varieties. The home of Pinot varieties is thought to be the area between Lake Geneva in Switzerland and the Rhône Valley in France. In South Tyrol in Italy, the grape variety is very popular as Pinot Bianco, in Styria and Alsace it is called Clevner, and in the rest of France it is known as Pinot Blanc. The cultivation of Pinot Blanc is as widespread as the variety of names. While almost no white Burgundy is cultivated in the eponymous Burgundy today, as almost everywhere the Chardonnay grape, closely related to Pinot Blanc, has been preferred due to its lower susceptibility to rot, the variety has been enjoying growing popularity in other wine-growing regions for years. Pinot Blanc is now not only widely grown in Europe, it is also cultivated in more than twenty other countries around the globe - it is even known in Canada, New Zealand and Uruquay. The world's most extensive Pinot Blanc vineyard is in Germany, where cultivation has doubled in the last decade. 

The cluster is small and compact. Small, green-yellowish berries. The must is neutral, rich in sugar and has good acidity. It produces powerful, vinous, generous wines which, vinified alone, are often discreet aromatically. In blends, it lends a melting texture and backbone, and its liveliness is particularly appreciated.

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