Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) NO20230705 this wine demands cellaring but

this wine demands cellaring but rewards patient collectors with complexity that defines the region's elite

A new and very exciting white Burgundy wine from excellent terroirs

refreshing

A serious wine that rewards patience or a long decant

and polished tannins that suggest years of graceful development ahead

Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) NO20230705 this wine demands cellaring butRadikon stands alone: no one does it like this Friulian superstar. As Eric Asimov put it, these wines "astound for their purity, their distinctiveness and their almost radical evocation of a pre modern age." The Merlot comes from old plantings on the family's Oslavia estate and gets the same patient treatment as the whites: extended skin contact (a given for a red, but here taken much further), then long aging in large neutral Slavonian oak. The vines