Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) SPCALIFORNIA biodynamic farming

biodynamic farming

aged in oak to add structure and spice without burying the fruit

and fresh brioche

that's what it's called

stainless and neutral barrel

Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) SPCALIFORNIA biodynamic farmingRadikon 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." The Merlot comes from old plantings on the family's Oslavia estate and gets the same patient treatment as the whites: extended skin contact (a given for a red, but here taken much further), then long aging in large neutral Slavonian oak. The vines