The Elena Walch 2017 Alto Adige Lagrein Riserva Vigna Castel Ringberg offers an equal dose of dark plummy fruit and oak spice, and both sides of the wine come together to create intensity on the bouquet. The aromas are rich and deep with ripe blackberry fruit, leather, tobacco and fragrant potting soil. The Lagrein grape tends to produce raw and vinous black-fruit aromas, but this wine offers additional oak spice to even out the final results. Some 9,000 bottles were released.