Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) SPCALIFORNIA was on the brink of

was on the brink of extinction

stainless and neutral barrel

the man who literally wrote the book on Barbaresco and founded the co-op that became the Produttori

it's fermented in neutral oak and large foudre with a deliberately gentle hand — no flash

Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) SPCALIFORNIA was on the brink ofRadikon 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