Collavini Pucino Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso 2024
£15.25
The wine
Refosco is Friuli native red, and it shows vibrant, fresh aromas of briary fruit and raspberry complemented by subtle hints of liquorice. Light bodied with beautiful balance and delicate herbaceous notes leading to a fresh and elegant finish.
Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso means Refosco with the red stalk, which is precisely how it is distinguished from its relatives. It is Friuli's principal native red, high in acidity with dark plum fruit and a bitter-almond finish, and it makes a firm, savoury wine that suits the region's substantial cooking.
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.
