Italy — wine

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Northeast Italian wine region bordering Slovenia and Austria, producing Italy's most refined white wines from Friulano, Malvasia Istriana, Ribolla Gialla, and Pinot Grigio. Also birthplace of the modern orange wine movement through Josko Gravner and Stanko Radikon.

Year Rating Notes
2022 Outstanding vintage; Ribolla Gialla and skin-contact whites of extraordinary complexity.
2021 Elegant vintage with good acid retention; Friulano and Malvasia showed exceptional aromatic finesse.
2020 The finest Friuli vintage of the decade; Gravner and Radikon produced epochal orange wines.
2019 Benchmark vintage; Collio whites showed the region at its most precise and mineral.
2018 Good conditions; all sub-zones produced characterful, site-expressive wines.