Gravner Ribolla Gialla Venezia Giulia 2015 750ml

Gravner’s cellar methodology for the indigenous Ribolla is simple, if extreme: bunches, harvested by hand, are transferred by gravity into subterranean amphorae, where they macerate for a full year; the wine is then pressed and moved to large Slavonian casks (all well used) for four years before bottling, with nothing added along the way except trace amounts of sulfur, and without fining or filtration of any kind. The wine rests several more years in bottle in Gravner’s deep storage cellar before being released to an adoring public. Gravner separates his vintages into those affected by botrytis and those unaffected, and he particularly prizes botrytis vintages for the complexity they lend his wines. 2015, happily, saw a thorough onset of botrytis following an exceptionally warm summer and a rainy early
autumn, and Josko finished picking on the 28th of October.