Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
Single-variety Malvasia Istriana with the estate's signature two-month skin contact. Honeysuckle and white pepper aromatics over a tea-tannin saline finish.
Cuvées
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant
Franco Toros's Collio Friulano from the Novali holdings above Cormons. Yellow apple and almond blossom over a long saline finish, cellar-worthy in the textbook traditional style.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant
Franco Toros's Collio Pinot Bianco, often cited as one of Italy's most cellar-worthy serious Pinot Bianco bottlings.
I Clivi Galea
4.6
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Mario and Ferdinando Zanusso's Friulano from old vines at Galea (Corno di Rosazzo). Extended lees ageing in stainless steel with low alcohol; the estate's identity statement for low-intervention Friulian whites.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Refreshing
Friulano from small Collio cellar Kupelwieser at Capriva del Friuli.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
Pinot Bianco from Kupelwieser at Capriva del Friuli in the Collio DOC.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Savoury
Native Carso Malvasia Istriana from family Lupinc at Prosecco (Trieste).
Lupinc Vitovska
4.0
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Savoury
Native Carso Vitovska from family Lupinc at Prosecco (Trieste). Small Carso producer in the village above Trieste.
Radikon Jakot
4.7
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
Extended-maceration Friulano, deliberately named Jakot (Tokaj spelled backwards) as a protest against the 2008 EU ruling forcing Friulano off the Tokai label. Dried almond and orange zest aromatics with a tea-tannin finish.
Radikon Merlot
4.6
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Savoury · Funky
Indigenous-style Merlot from the Oslavia ponca slopes, vinified the Radikon way with no added yeast and three years in Slavonian botti. Dried red cherry and leather over a dusty, saline-edged finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · High tannin · High acidity · Bold · Savoury
Indigenous Tazzelenghe (literally tongue-cutter in Friulian, a reference to the variety's high tannin) from the Spessa di Cividale holdings. Aged 18 months in barrique.