Radikon Pignoli 2014 (500ml) 070226CRISP making these wines perfectly balanced

making these wines perfectly balanced

vinified across an array of vessels (French oak barrels and foudres

Hardy Wallace's Right Bank impulse

Seagrass highlights the grassy oceanside notes we love in rye and the opulence and spice of finishing barrels

Radikon Pignoli 2014 (500ml) 070226CRISP making these wines perfectly balancedRadikon 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." Pignoli is the family's collector cuvee: an obscure Friulian red grape, notoriously low yielding and unforgiving in the vineyard, that Stanko championed when almost no one else would. The vines grow on clay, marl, and limestone above Oslavia,