Tasting Notes
From a small family estate overlooking the Gulf of Trieste, this Malvasia Istriana comes from higher elevation vineyards near the Slovenian border, giving the wine a lighter and more aromatic style. Hand harvested fruit sees a short skin maceration before native fermentation and ageing in large old oak. The wine shows soft apricot blossom, orchard fruit and fleshy peach, finishing with a gentle almond-like savoury edge. - Pete L
Giorgio Nicolini is a tiny family producer working a 2 hectare patch on the very edge of Italy, where the hills above the old Venetian colony of Muggia tip down to the Gulf of Trieste with the Slovenian and Croatian borders only steps away. Giorgio and Rossana farm in the old way, hewing close to traditions inherited from their grandparents and devoting much of their effort to replanting old native varieties from the original 100-year clones in their own vineyard - Malvasia Istriana and Vitovska on the whites, Piccola Nera and Borgogna Nera on the reds. The vines are 20-30 years old on clay with marine sediments, catching the singular light created by the meeting of Alpine and Mediterranean air, treated minimally with no systemics in the vineyard and a hands-off cellar approach to match - hand-harvested in small baskets, fermented with native yeasts, basket pressed and bottled unfiltered with only the smallest sulphur additions. These are wines that taste unmistakably of where they come from. - Pete L
| Product Type | Wine White Other Varietals & Blends |
| Volume | 750ml |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Friuli |
| Sub Region | Venezia Giulia |
| Winemaking Practices | Natural |
| Vineyard Practices | Minimal Intervention |