Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) NO20230705 Paolo Cianferoni has been farming

Paolo Cianferoni has been farming Caparsa

and polished tannins that suggest years of graceful development ahead

What happened is Pinzutu: light on its feet

and that original scrap of gnarled

Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) NO20230705 Paolo Cianferoni has been 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