Friuli Archives | Palate Press

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From the organic Aquila del Torre Winery in the extreme northeastern region of Italy Imagine a wine that is layered and deep, echoing the soil and the hillside terroir where it is grown. And this is a white wine – perhaps not exactly what you might be expecting, since more Read More

A personal reflection on Stanko Radikon

Simon J Woolf

Features Wine Spotlight

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With the loss of Stanislao “Stanko” Radikon on September 11th 2016, the wine world lost one of its most dynamic pioneers. The news was announced to the world with a poignant message from his son Saša, on social media: “Tonight I missed a friend and collaborator. But most of all, Read More

Any color you like as long as it’s orange

Simon J Woolf

Features Wine Spotlight

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Picture this: a postcard perfect seaside town in Slovenia, blue skies, fresh seafood and a wine festival. But not just any wine festival – in Slovene and Italian (the two most encountered languages in this part of the world) the description is rendered as “white wines with long maceration”. But Read More

Lightness and weight: an ode to Schioppettino

Simon J Woolf

Features Wine Spotlight

4 min read

One of the most beguiling things about Italy's finest red wine varieties is their balance between weight and complexity on the one hand, and finesse and lightness on the other. Milan Kundera spends the entire length of his classic 1984 novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” iterating over a similar Read More

In Italy, a tough vintage

Elisabetta Tosi

Features Wine Spotlight

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“We work in a factory without a roof, and have to accept what the sky gives us… but I have never seen a summer like this,” sighs the old grape grower. Living in an area of wine production puts me in touch with the daily problems, hopes, joys and frustrations of Read More

Getting to grips with grappa

Michelle Locke

Features Spirits Wine Spotlight

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In Friuli, the Nonino family makes grappa in a sophisticated spirit Earthy, rustic, fiery -- grappa's got a reputation as a real party animal, white lightning, Italian style. But did you know there are elegant, single-varietal grappas that can hold their own at the fanciest of soirées? Or grappa cocktails Read More

Friuli Beyond White and Orange: Discovering Reds like Schioppettino, Pignolo, Refosco

Talia Baiocchi

Features

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In every wine region there is at least one wine that manages capture one’s personal impressions of that region—its colors, smells, and the energy of the place. Sometimes, as I touched on a couple months ago on this website, the most visceral wines can be the most unlikely. In Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, Read More

2009 Bastianich Friulano Adriatico

Becky Sue Epstein

Wine Reviews

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Sweetly fruited, peach blossom aromas and flavors. A slightly nutty finish, opening to sherry-like taste in the glass. Could work with Asian foods as well as dishes from the hearty, peasant-based native Fruili cuisine. WHO: Bastianich Adriatico WHAT: Friulano WHERE:-read more- Read More

An Unexpected Italian White Wine: Friulano

A personal reflection on Stanko Radikon

Any color you like as long as it’s orange

Lightness and weight: an ode to Schioppettino

In Italy, a tough vintage

Getting to grips with grappa

Friuli Beyond White and Orange: Discovering Reds like Schioppettino, Pignolo, Refosco

2009 Bastianich Friulano Adriatico

2018 Notturno Drei Donà Romagna DOC Predappio Sangiovese

2019 Jordan Chardonnay, Russian River Valley, Sonoma County

2018 Ghost of a Chance Wines “Gangster of Love” Red, Sierra Foothills

2020 One Flock Sauvignon Blanc

2020 One Flock Red Wine, California