Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing
Top Collio Sauvignon from Attems. The cellar has been owned by the Marchesi de' Frescobaldi since 2000 and Cicinis is the flagship single-parcel Sauvignon.
Cuvées
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Fruity
Skin-contact Pinot Grigio ramato from Attems. The ramato style takes advantage of Pinot Grigio's natural pink skins to produce a copper-coloured wine.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Savoury
Collio Sauvignon from Borgo Conventi at Farra d'Isonzo. The Folonari-owned cellar's everyday Sauvignon in stainless steel.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
Dry Pinot Grigio from organic-biodynamic Borgo San Daniele. The Mauri siblings' Pinot Grigio in stainless steel.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
Dry Pinot Grigio from Castello di Spessa in the Collio DOC.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing
Single-parcel Sauvignon from Castello di Spessa at Capriva del Friuli. The castle cellar's flagship Sauvignon from the Santarosa vineyard.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Savoury
Native Carso Vitovska from Castelvecchio at Sagrado. The cellar bottles Vitovska without skin contact, showing the variety's clean saline-mineral side.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Savoury
Native Carso Malvasia Istriana from Edi Kante. The cellar's Malvasia shows the variety's saline-mineral spine more than its aromatic side.
Kante Sauvignon
4.4
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Sauvignon from Edi Kante on the Carso plateau. The variety's karst expression shows mineral depth more than aromatic lift.
Kante Vitovska
4.6
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing
Native Carso Vitovska from Edi Kante at Duino-Aurisina. Kante's underground three-floor cellar cut into the Carso karst is among Italian winemaking's most distinctive buildings.
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 · Savoury · Refreshing
Indigenous Friulano with short skin maceration, sold within DOC Collio. Yellow apple and bitter almond aromatics over a saline almond-skin finish.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing
Aromatic field-blend white from Lis Neris. Pinot Grigio with Traminer Aromatico and Riesling Renano gives the cellar's flagship aromatic style.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Oak-aged Sauvignon from Lis Neris. Picol is the cellar's single-parcel Sauvignon with partial new-oak elevage.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant
Livio Felluga's classical Colli Orientali Pinot Grigio, pear and almond aromatics over a saline finish.
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.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant
Marco Felluga's classical Collio Pinot Grigio with pear and almond aromatics. The estate's volume flagship since the 1950s, vinified in stainless steel for clean fruit-forward freshness.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Savoury
Single-parcel Sauvignon from Pierpaolo Pecorari at San Lorenzo Isontino. The cellar's unoaked Sauvignon, sharp and direct.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
Dry Pinot Grigio from Pierpaolo Pecorari at San Lorenzo Isontino. The cellar's everyday Isonzo Pinot Grigio in stainless steel.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Festive
Tank-method sparkling Ribolla Gialla from Puiatti. Ribolla Gialla is the historic white grape of Collio and Brda and adapts well to the tank-method sparkling style.
Dry · Light-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Festive
Tank-method sparkling Pinot Grigio from Puiatti at Romans d'Isonzo. Vittorio Puiatti was a pioneer of serious Pinot Grigio in Friuli; the cellar has bottled sparkling Pinot Grigio since the 1980s.
Radikon Sivi
4.5
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant
S Line orange Pinot Grigio (Sivi means 'grey' in Slovenian) with the variety's natural copper hue from skin contact. Pink grapefruit and rose hip aromatics over a saline-edged finish.
Radikon Slatnik
4.5
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Savoury
The entry-tier S Line orange blend (Chardonnay + Friulano) with shorter skin contact than the flagship Ribolla. Yellow apple and white peach over a saline finish with light tannin grip.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · Racy acidity · Refreshing · Elegant
Dry Riesling Renano from Ronco del Gelso at Cormons. Riesling is uncommon in the Isonzo and the cellar's Latimis bottling is a benchmark.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant
Russiz Superiore's Collio Sauvignon with elderflower and lime zest aromatics over a saline pith finish. The restrained Friulian style, with longer cellar potential than commodity Sauvignon.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant
The reference dry-style Collio Pinot Grigio, vinified in stainless steel since 1965. Pear and almond aromatics over a saline finish, the textbook style for serious Italian Pinot Grigio.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant
The reference Collio Sauvignon, vinified in stainless steel since 1968. Elderflower and lime zest aromatics over a saline pith finish, the textbook restrained Friulian style.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Easygoing
Dry Pinot Grigio from Scolaris in stainless steel.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Savoury
Dry Malvasia Istriana from Tenuta di Blasig at Ronchi dei Legionari. The cellar is one of the few Friulian estates run by a sole woman, Patrizia Felluga's cousin Elisabetta Bortolotto Sarcinelli.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing
The estate's flagship single-vineyard Sauvignon from the Ronco delle Mele cru in Dolegna del Collio. Elderflower and lime zest aromatics over a saline finish, the textbook benchmark for serious Collio Sauvignon.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing
Single-parcel Chardonnay from the Ciampagnis Vieris vineyard at Mariano del Friuli. Vie di Romans' unoaked Chardonnay reference.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing
Single-parcel Malvasia Istriana from Vie di Romans. The cellar's Malvasia bottling shows the variety's signature wild-herb register against an Isonzo-mineral spine.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Refreshing
Field-blend white from Vie di Romans of Malvasia Istriana, Friulano and Riesling. The cellar's signature aromatic blend, designed to highlight Isonzo terroir over single-variety expression.
Dry · Full-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Elegant · Savoury
Sauvignon from the Vieris parcel at Mariano del Friuli. Gianfranco Gallo's Vie di Romans defined the modern Isonzo white style with extended lees ageing.
Dry · Medium-bodied · Low tannin · High acidity · Refreshing · Elegant
Volpe Pasini's everyday-tier Pinot Grigio, pear and almond aromatics over a saline finish.
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.