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Ronchi di Cialla, Verduzzo, 2018

White Wine from Friuli, Italy
by Ronchi Di Cialla
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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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Paolo and Dina Rapuzzi founded this estate in 1970 with one goal: make great aging wines from indigenous Friuli varieties. Their sons revived the nearly extinct Schioppettino grape and have made it their signature. These are wines with real backbone and personality.

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.