This is a terrific entry-level red that offers plenty of varietal typicity with a very attractive price tag. The Cantina Kaltern 2020 Alto Adige Pinot Nero delivers all the goods: freshness, elegance and a no-fuss style to pair with white meat or even a spaghetti allo scoglio with seafood and chopped tomato, if served a few degrees chilled. I'd suggest buying this wine by the case, not by the bottle, and make sure to drink it while all that beautiful primary fruit is still intact. Some 95,000 bottles were made.

The Cantina Kaltern 2019 Alto Adige Pinot Nero (with 90,000 bottles made) is a beautiful wine that puts aromatic purity and fresh elegance before anything else. The wine rises bright from the glass with a bouquet driven by mountain flowers, wild violets, honey, candied orange peel, sweet almond and lots of tangy forest fruit. It offers a big dose of Pinot Nero purity over a lean and silky mouthfeel. This is a terrific value buy.

This is a balanced and luminous interpretation of Pinot Noir, with wild berry and cassis. There's not much depth to speak of in the 2018 Alto Adige Pinot Nero, but the wine is broad, wide and satisfying. The fruit is immediate, ripe and balanced having aged just briefly (for four months) in a combination of cement and large oak casks. This one should work just fine on pizza night. Some 95,000 bottles were made.

With 95,000 bottles made, the 2017 Alto Adige Pinot Nero is focused on accessibility and ease of drinking. The wine makes a good first impression thanks to the intensity of the primary fruit, with blackcurrant and wild raspberry. This Pinot Nero undergoes a brief five-month aging period split between large oak casks and cement. In all, you are rewarded with freshness and varietal clarity. Drink this wine within the next 2 to 3 years.