Collavini Broy Collio Bianco 2022
£39.95
The wine
Exotic aromas of ripe tropical fruit, acacia honey, orange peel and summer flowers lead to a rich, buttery palate, beautifully balanced by freshness and minerality through to an exquisitely long and complex finish. The estate flagship.
Broy is a Collio Bianco, the appellation's blended white, bringing Friulano together with Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc. Friulano is the region's own grape, once called Tocai until European law forced the change in 2007, and it contributes an almond and green-apple character nothing else provides. Barrel fermented and aged.
The producer
Collavini
View all Collavini winesFour generations of Collavini have made wine in Friuli, and the family now work from the sixteenth-century Villa Canlungo at Corno di Rosazzo, in the hills of the Collio on the Slovenian border.
Friuli is Italy's finest white wine region and its history explains why. The land passed between Venice, the Habsburgs, Italy and Yugoslavia, and the vineyards carry varieties from all of them: Friulano and Ribolla Gialla are native, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay arrived under Austrian rule, and the whole area was a laboratory for modern white winemaking in the 1960s and 70s.
The soil is ponca, a layered marl and sandstone that crumbles readily and lets roots drive deep, and it is the reason Collio whites have the mineral tension they do. Manlio Collavini also pioneered a long, slow tank fermentation for sparkling wine, and the estate remains one of the region's most recognised names across both still and sparkling.
