WTN: G.D.Vajra Langhe Bianco '09...(short/boring)

Tried this last night w/ my pork chops:
1. G.D.Vajra DOC: Langhe Bianco (EB; 13.5%) 2009: Med.light gold color; rather stoney/earthy somewhat fragrant/floral/slight muscatty/spicy quite attractive nose; slight spritz rather stoney/austere light floral/muscatty/spicy/perfumed quite tart flavor; med.long bit spritzy floral/muscatty/fragrant/spicy somewhat stoney/austere finish; quite an interesting/attractive wine at a good price; seems like an Arneis with ??, maybe muscat, blended in. $23.00 (KK)
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And a wee BloodyPulpit:
1. I bought this wine Sat because I was curious as to what it was, with only a Bianco on the label. I was assuming it was Arneis, but puzzled by why the Arneis wasn't listed on the label. The stoney/earthy/mineral character certainly suggested it was mostly Arneis, but it had a strange perfumed fragrance to it that suggested Muscat had been added.
WrongoDongo. After looking at the importers WebSite (www.GiulianaImports.com), I found out it is...TaDa...100% Riesling. In the Piedmonte?? SacreBlu!!! Do these Italians have no sense of what is right & proper??? Riesling???!!!!
Turns out, Giuseppe Vajra's grandfather visited Alsace and fell in love w/ their Rieslings and brought back some cuttings from MarcelDeiss and planted them in his vnyds. Since Riesling is not (yet) and authorized Piedmonte variety, it is simply a Langhe wine.
Who'd have thunk....Piedmonte Riesling.
Tom

As far as I remember my tasting in Verona during Vinitaly Fair 2010 at the stand of G.D.Vajra, their Langhe Bianco should have been produced out of Riesling and the tasting could successfully confirm this. The idea "Piedmont and Riesling" didn´t work entirely for me that moment as well...

Indeed not that easy to spot as riesling if you taste it blind.

Ian, full agreement, especially if you taste blind a white wine from Piemonte. Then maybe only Arneis or Cortese occur, the geeks can eventually add Timorasso or Erbaluce, but never the Riesling. Maybe Moscato as well but not in this context.

For my tasting of G.D.Vajra wines I brougt a bottle of Slovak Riesling - Château Belá, 2007 - and they were not less astonished than me (with their Piemonte-Riesling-combination) when reading on the label "Produced by Egon Müller"...

My one week holiday in Piemonte last year could help me to discover Arneis and I fell in love with. When refering to the original post, the two varieties - Arneis and Riesling - were for me not always far from each other that time and I brought home not only one bottle...