“Rosso Gravner”, Venezia Giulia Rosso

The ”Rosso Gravner” is a blend of roughly 90% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon from vines planted in the early 1960s. Merlot can achieve notable complexity in the Collio, particularly when handled with Gravner’s level of skill and sensitivity, and this wine shows dazzling notes of umami and soy sauce atop a core of chiseled dark fruits and assertive savory spices. It ferments naturally in buried Georgian amphorae for four weeks, then passes four years in well-used oak barrels before being bottled without fining or filtration.