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Half-forlorn, half-indignant. Because, why, at the

Half-forlorn, half-indignant. Because, why, at the end of my wine, I still have more night left? 🤷🏻‍♀️😒🤦🏻‍♀️

🧐When was the last time you tasted an amber/ora

🧐When was the last time you tasted an amber/orange wine that reminded you of vinosity? I’ve never associated the concept of vinosity with orange wine. Come to think of it now, I can recall merely a handful of orange wines that I may describe as “vinous” (e.g. Gravner’s). But never once had I tasted an orange wine that immediately delivers the vinous impression; @korenika_moskon_wines Sulne 2011 (Slovenska Istra) might be a first.
🍇 50% Istrian Malvasia, 25% Pinot Grigio, 25% Chardonnay. 45-day of maceration and 12 months of lees-aging in the barrels, followed by another 5 years of aging in 2,000-liter barrels.
🖼 This wine is a bit of a Monet, complex yet all parts are melded together: it's hard to differentiate one flavor from another. The key notes are of butterscotch, lemon, osmanthus flower, and sweet peach. The unctuous and rich palate shows a bit of small and gritty tannins, but not too astringent. This wine has exceptional persistence. Perfect levels of aldehydic and oxidative quality, in my opinion. Even though the volatile acidity is stated as 0.99g/l, the taste isn’t disturbed and I detect insignificant intensity of ethyl acetate in the bouquet, making this wine widely likable. In fact, a rather fine wine.
🥳If fruit ain't your thing, I hope this poem of a wine is. Take it to a dinner party, and let it help you animate a few faces.

🇮🇹 The east-west Cialla valley contains an I

🇮🇹 The east-west Cialla valley contains an Italian wine sub-zone of Colli Orientali del Friuli, Italy: called Cialla, it is a monopole controlled by family-run winery @ronchi_di_cialla. In Cialla, the most northeastern corner of the Alps, one can hardly imagine a warm vintage. Also, this wine-producing sub-zone receives 1,600 millimeters of annual precipitation. With the Bura wind blowing through the valley, the area remains dry almost constantly. Hence there’s little abiotic stress; grapes grow here with ease.
🤩Ronchi di Ciallia works with wine grapes indigenous to the area, such as Picolit, Pignolo, Refosco, Ribolla Gialla, Schioppettino, and Verduzzo.
🤯Interesting varieties innit, which ones are you familiar with?
🏡 This winery has been in production since the 1970s, and they are famous for making characterful, unique wines that show their true personalities only after 8-10 years and reach a peak after 20-40 years. So based on the guideline given by the winemakers, we are drinking this Refosco right at the beginning of its teenagehood. With that said, this is one HOT TEENAGER.
💣Notes of leather, dark cocoa powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, cumin, and black cherry. Soft-like-old-jeans palate with integrated acidity that gives a juicy facet. The finish shows a hint of green youthfulness. The tannins are small and firm; they build up like marathon runners but show little thirst (astringency). There is just a hint of ethyl acetate, which is absolutely normal for a wine of this age, but what's cool is it's not crossing the line into being balsamic-like. One of the best examples of Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso. Wine geeks, wine lovers, and wine collectors should all take note of this charming and intriguing wine: it smells like teen novocaine.

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