⚠ Last 5 Cases · 60 Bottles Remain · Buy the Case, Save $72

Wine Spectator #33 Top 100 of 2024 · Lowest Price in the Country

ELENA WALCH · ALTO ADIGE · NORTHERN ITALY

Stunning Alto Adige Bianco.
For White Burgundy & Sancerre Lovers.

From the wine world's best-kept secret: the Alps of Northern Italy.

If you've dismissed Pinot Grigio as thin, neutral, or forgettable, Elena Walch's 2023 from Alto Adige is the bottle that will make you reconsider everything. This is not the flat, industrial Pinot Grigio of the Veneto plains. This is mountain-grown wine — from the alpine foothills where Italy meets Austria, at elevations where cool air, volcanic soils, and dramatic diurnal swings produce white wines of extraordinary complexity and precision.

Wine Spectator agreed: they ranked it #33 in their Top 100 Wines of 2024. We have the last 60 bottles — exactly five 12-bottle cases — at $24.99 per bottle ($6 below every other source in the country), or $299.88 per case (saving you $72.12 per case). When they're gone, the 2023 is gone.

A case saves $72.12 vs everywhere else · 5 cases remain

Why This Wine Is Extraordinary

2023 Elena Walch
Pinot Grigio Alto Adige DOC

Alto Adige, Northern Italy  ·  100% Pinot Grigio  ·  Drink now through 2029

Alto Adige: The Wine World's Best-Kept Secret

Most people's experience with Pinot Grigio begins and ends with the flat, high-volume wines of the Veneto plains — thin, neutral, and utterly forgettable. But Alto Adige, tucked into the Dolomite foothills where Italy borders Austria and Switzerland, is a different world entirely. Here, vineyards climb steep slopes at altitudes up to 3,000 feet, cooled by alpine air and rooted in volcanic, glacial, and alluvial soils that impart a mineral precision no flatland vineyard can replicate. The diurnal temperature swings — hot days, frigid nights — preserve natural acidity and aromatic complexity that makes these wines genuinely unlike anything else in Italy.

Elena Walch has been the defining voice of Alto Adige for decades. Her estate in Termeno — the village where Gewurztraminer was born — has earned international recognition not for following fashion but for expressing terroir with unflinching precision. Walch's Pinot Grigio doesn't try to be anything other than what Alpine Italy produces at its finest: complex, saline, aromatic, and utterly alive.

Wine Spectator ranked the 2023 #33 in their Top 100 Wines of the Year for 2024. It was also our finest white wine pairing at Thanksgiving — a wine with enough body and complexity to hold its own alongside turkey, squash, and all the aromatics of the season. At $24.99 per bottle ($299.88 per case), with only 60 bottles left, it is also one of the finest white wine values we have ever offered — and the kind of bottle that belongs in your cellar by the case, not the single.

Lowest Price in the Country · Last 5 Cases

Elsewhere: $31.00/btl · $372/case

$24.99/bottle  ·  $299.88/case

Save $6.01 per bottle · $72.12 per case

Six Reasons This Wine Belongs in Your Cellar

The Artisan Insider Verdict

"We poured this at Thanksgiving and it was the wine of the table — more interesting, more complete, and more food-friendly than anything else around this price. It genuinely changes what you think Pinot Grigio is capable of. At $24.99 with a #33 Wine Spectator ranking, I'm hard-pressed to think of a better white wine value we've ever offered. I bought a case for our own cellar — Christine and I will be drinking through it all summer. I'd recommend you do the same."

— James Tran, Artisan Wine & Spirits

⚠ Last 5 Cases · 60 Bottles of This Vintage

2023 Elena Walch
Pinot Grigio Alto Adige DOC

Northern Italy  ·  750mL  ·  WS 91 · #33 Top 100 2024  ·  WE 90

Elsewhere: $31.00/btl · $372/case

$24.99 / bottle

$299.88 / case (save $72.12)

What You'd Pay in a Restaurant

A #33 Top 100 wine commands serious restaurant pricing. Your price is a different conversation entirely.

★ THE SMART PLAY · THE CASE FOR THE CASE ★

Buy the Case. Save $72.12. Done.

A case at Artisan is $299.88. The same case anywhere else is $372. We have five 12-bottle cases left. When they're gone, the 2023 is gone — and the 2024 will be a different vintage in a different year.

Six Reasons a Case Is the Smart Play

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The Producer

Elena Walch: The Voice of Alto Adige

Elena Walch is the most internationally recognized name in Alto Adige winemaking — an Austrian-Italian architect by training who married into a winemaking family in Termeno and transformed the estate into one of the region's finest and most awarded producers. Her Kastelaz vineyard — a steep, south-facing amphitheater above the town — is the source of her iconic single-vineyard Gewurztraminer, widely regarded as one of the world's greatest expressions of that grape.

But the range extends far beyond Kastelaz. Her Pinot Grigio — sourced from estate vineyards across the Tramin and Caldaro zones — demonstrates what the grape becomes when farmed at altitude in volcanic, mineral-rich soils: aromatic, textured, saline, and genuinely age-worthy. The 2023 puts that argument in front of Wine Spectator's panel and lands at #33 in the world. The case is closed — and the case is in our cellar, by the dozen.

At the Table · A Case Pairs With Everything

The Most Versatile White in Our Cellar

Every one of these is a reason a case earns its keep. Twelve bottles, twelve different evenings.

Drinking Window · Wine Spectator Confirmed

Now Through 2029

A case lets you taste the wine through every phase.

The Critics

Frequently Asked Questions

"I don't usually like Pinot Grigio. Why would this be different?"

Because the Pinot Grigio you've tried almost certainly came from the Veneto or Friuli plains — high-volume, low-altitude viticulture optimized for yield rather than quality. Alto Adige is a fundamentally different proposition: steep alpine vineyards, volcanic mineral soils, and a cool climate that produces a wine with genuine texture, salinity, and aromatic complexity. Wine Spectator does not rank flat, forgettable white wines #33 in the world. We promise this will surprise you.

How is this different from a Burgundy Chardonnay or an Alsatian Pinot Gris?

Burgundy Chardonnay is richer and more textured, often with more oak influence. Alsatian Pinot Gris (the same grape as Pinot Grigio) tends toward greater body and residual sugar. The Elena Walch sits in a beautiful middle ground: more aromatic and mineral than most Burgundy whites, crisper and drier than Alsace, with a saline alpine character that is entirely its own. It is a more versatile food wine than either.

Why only 60 bottles, and should I really buy a case?

Only 8,400 cases were produced for the entire world, and most of the U.S. allocation has already sold through. These 60 bottles are what remain — exactly five 12-bottle cases, and that is the entire 2023 vintage left in our market. The 2024 will be a different vintage in a different year, and there will be no encore on a #33 Top 100 ranking. Yes, buy the case. At $299.88 you save $72 versus the same case at any other source, and Wine Spectator's drinking window runs through 2029 — five summers of perfect entertaining. We did the same for our own cellar.

Last 5 Cases · WS #33 of 2024 · Save $72/Case

The wine that changes everything you thought
about Pinot Grigio — by the case.

The Bottom Line

Wine Spectator #33 in the world.
The Alpine Pinot Grigio that will change your bias.
$24.99/btl · $299.88/case (Save $72.12)
Five cases. Then it is gone.

This is what happens when Pinot Grigio is grown on a mountain, by a producer who has spent decades proving that Alto Adige is one of Italy's great wine regions, at a price that makes the conversation easy. It is the most compelling white wine value we have offered in years — and the kind of bottle that earns its place in your cellar by the dozen, not the single. Five cases remain. Spring is here. Take care of the next five summers in one purchase.

or order a single bottle at $24.99 →

Cheers,

James Tran
Artisan Wine & Spirits · Mountain View, CA

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