Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury
Native Friulian Schioppettino from Bressan. The signature black-pepper bite of the variety is amplified by the cellar's long Slavonian-oak elevage.
Cuvées
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · Racy acidity · Rustic · Savoury
Native Carso Terrano from Castelvecchio. The cellar's red on the iron-rich karst soils.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
The estate's Friulian field-blend orange wine of Chardonnay, Malvasia Istriana and Friulano. Yellow apple and almond aromatics over a tea-tannin saline finish.
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.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
Damijan Podversic's extended-maceration Ribolla from the Gorizia hillside, two months on the skins with no added yeast. Dried apricot and honey over a tea-tannin finish.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury
Native Friulian Refosco from Foffani at Clauiano in the Friuli Aquileia DOC. Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso is named for its red stem; the wine shows the variety's signature violet-and-pepper profile.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
International-varietal field blend (Sauvignon, Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Riesling Italico) vinified the same qvevri-and-Slavonian-botti way as Ribolla. Yellow stone fruit, dried orange peel and walnut over a tea-tannin amphora finish.
Gravner Ribolla
4.9
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
Josko Gravner's flagship Ribolla Gialla, fermented six to seven months on the skins in buried qvevri after his 2001 conversion to the Georgian amphora method. Dried apricot and orange peel aromatics over a tea-tannin palate and a saline pithy finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
The international-variety field blend of Chardonnay, Sauvignon and Pinot Grigio, vinified the La Castellada way with extended skin contact. Yellow plum and dried herbs over a tea-tannin saline finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
The Bensa family's extended-maceration Ribolla, one of the four founding Oslavia orange-wine cellars alongside Gravner, Radikon and Damijan Podversic. Dried apricot, orange peel and almond over a tea-tannin finish.
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.
Radikon Ribolla
4.8
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Savoury
Stanko Radikon's pioneering extended-maceration Ribolla, with three to four months on the skins. The wine that put Oslavia on the global orange-wine map alongside Gravner; sold in the distinctive 500 ml bottle Stanko adopted in 2002.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury
Native Friulian Schioppettino from Ronchi di Manzano. Schioppettino was nearly extinct in the 1970s before the village of Prepotto saved it; the wine's signature is its black-pepper bite.
Skerk Ograde
4.5
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Funky
Carso field-blend white from Skerk. Ograde co-ferments four white varieties on skins as the cellar's signature blend.
Skerk Terrano
4.2
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · Racy acidity · Rustic · Savoury
Native Carso Terrano from Skerk. The cellar's red on the iron-rich karst soils.
Skerk Vitovska
4.5
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Native Carso Vitovska from Sandi Skerk at Sgonico. Skerk's underground cellar is cut into the karst rock alongside the neighbouring Zidarich and Vodopivec sites.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Rustic · Savoury
Native Friulian Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso from Tenuta di Blasig. The cellar's red anchor.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Contemplative · Funky
Long-skin-contact Vitovska from Paolo Vodopivec on the Carso. The cellar buried its first qvevri amphorae in 2005 and built around them an orange-wine line that critics rate alongside Gravner and Radikon.
Zidarich Prulke
4.5
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Funky
Carso field-blend white from Zidarich. The Prulke blend co-ferments Vitovska, Malvasia Istriana and Sauvignon together on skins.
Zidarich Terrano
4.2
Dry · Medium-bodied · Medium tannin · Racy acidity · Rustic · Savoury
Native Carso Terrano from Zidarich. Terrano is the Carso's signature red and the wine retains the variety's iron-mineral signature from the karst's red soils.
Dry · Full-bodied · Medium tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Native Carso Vitovska from Beniamino Zidarich at Sgonico. Shorter skin contact than Vodopivec gives the wine more freshness, but the orange-wine signature remains.