Ronchi di Cialla Verduzzo di Cialla

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In the glass

Aroma: dried apricot, honey, candied lemon, chamomile, beeswax

Palate: dried fig, honey, candied citrus, saline finish

The Rapuzzi family's late-harvest Verduzzo Friulano from Cialla, aged in large Slavonian oak botti. Dried apricot and honey over a saline-edged sweet finish.

What it pairs with

• Aged Roquefort Blue cheese salt finds a foil in the wine's honey sweetness; saline finish refreshes between bites.More wines for blue cheese →
• Foie gras with fig compote Candied lemon aromatics lift the offal richness; full body and high acidity handle the foie's fat.More wines for foie gras →
• Walnut tart with honey Beeswax and chamomile aromatics echo the dessert; honey palate handles the walnut.More wines for dessert →

With cheese

Smoked ricotta (scuete fumade) Our pick The honey and dried-apricot sweetness of a sweet Verduzzo Friulano, the grape of Ramandolo, softens the smoke and salt of a fresh scuete fumade, while its acidity keeps the pairing from cloying.

History

Ronchi di Cialla's late-harvest Verduzzo Friulano, sitting alongside the Schioppettino and Refosco in the Rapuzzi family's indigenous-variety program at Cialla. Verduzzo Friulano is the indigenous late-harvest variety used in DOCG Ramandolo further north.

1. 1977First Ronchi di Cialla Verduzzo vintage as a late-harvest dessert wine

Facts

Producer

Ronchi di Cialla · visiting guide

Grapes

Verduzzo Friulano (100%)

Classification

DOC Friuli Colli Orientali

Oak

Late-harvest grapes briefly dried on mats; fermentation and ageing in large Slavonian oak botti for around 24 months

ABV

13.0%

Price

EUR 35 to 55 at 500 ml retail

Drinking window

5-25 from vintage

First vintage

1977

Organic

ORGANIC CERTIFIED

Vegan

Yes (no animal-derived fining)

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