Radikon Pignoli 2014 (500ml) CS20231026 mineral-driven wines

mineral-driven wines

same Pauillac terroir

and their Gruner sees nothing but stainless steel — no oak

no flat Champagne going sad in the fridge door

This now famous commune in Saumur is known for its laser-sharp Chenin Blanc wines

Radikon Pignoli 2014 (500ml) CS20231026 mineral-driven winesRadikon 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." Pignoli is the family's collector cuvee: an obscure Friulian red grape, notoriously low yielding and unforgiving in the vineyard, that Stanko championed when almost no one else would. The vines grow on clay, marl, and limestone above Oslavia,