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Ronchi di Cialla, Verduzzo, 2018

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A dessert wine with grip - Verduzzo is one of the few white grapes whose thick golden skins carry enough tannin to give a sweet wine real structure. Ronchi di Cialla picks it in late October and lets noble rot take hold, ferments spontaneously in French barriques, then gives the wine a year in wood and two more in bottle before it goes anywhere. The Rapuzzi family have farmed the Cialla valley, a small hillside amphitheater of Eocene marl in Friuli's Colli Orientali, since 1970; they are the people who rescued Schioppettino from extinction, and they bring the same patience to their sweet wine. This is honeyed but never cloying - the tannin and the acidity keep it upright - and at eight years old it has taken on amber glints and a deeper, drier-edged complexity. Pour it in small glasses, cool but not ice cold.

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Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Verduzzo

  • Vintage

    2018

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Organic

  • Sweetness

    Sweet

  • Body

    Light Bodied

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Almond biscotti, apricot or apple tart (skip anything cream-heavy), aged Montasio or a hard pecorino. The Friulian move is to pour it with foie gras or a blue cheese.

Tasting Profile

Golden with amber reflections. Honey, acacia blossom, dried apricot and candied citrus peel - sweet but not syrupy, with a faint grip of skin tannin and bright acidity cutting underneath. Medium-bodied, with a long, gently bitter-almond finish.