Le Due Terre Colli Orientali del Friuli Sacrisassi 2005

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Vintage
2005

Size
750ML

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Bright straw yellow. Intense and persistent floral aromas. Dry, full-bodied, potent and warm. Finishes very long. Perfect for white meats and roasted whole fish as well as fish soup.

Professional Ratings

  • 95
    A captivating blend of friulano and ribolla gialla grown in calcareous marl soils, this feels structured and complex, mixing bright citrus flavors with firm minerality. It deepens with air, the scents of ripe lemon, sage and rosemary focused by the wine's naturally high acidity. The mineral character also evolves, lengthening the wine's silken elegance. Structured to age for several more years, tempting now to match its bone-dry intensity with grilled quail wrapped in pancetta.

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Le Due Terre, Italy
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Silvana Forte and Flavio Basilicata established the estate in 1984 with the idea of producing wines with both tradition and sense of terroir. They are a team that is committed to wines that flout traditional canons. Flavio started as a consultant winemaker in the late seventies, working mainly in the Colli Orientali del Friuli appellation and having a lot of experiences with both international and local grapes. Since the beginning, their main focus was to grow Refosco, Schioppettino and Tocai, classic varietals from the area and particularly well performing in the village of Prepotto where the estate is located.

Flavio is a sort of avant-garde traditionalist. He wants to keep alive the varietals and the ancient methods but he’s perfectly aware of the necessity of refinement and complexity required by today’s wine drinkers. For him originality and terroir are a real challenge and his winemaking approach is simply, ’less is better’. That’s why he prefers not to rack the wines if unnecessary, preferring the action of the lees and oxygen to any intrusive manipulation. He doesn’t want to produce monsters, but human and natural wines that reflect the site, the vintage, the history and the ambition of a long ageing potential. They produces two blends of Sacrissassi wines, form the sacred stones that are blends of the indigenous varietals if the ancient area near Udine called Prepotto.

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With hundreds of white grape varieties to choose from, winemakers have the freedom to create a virtually endless assortment of blended white wines. In many European regions, strict laws are in place determining the set of varieties that may be used in white wine blends, but in the New World, experimentation is permitted and encouraged. Blending can be utilized to enhance balance or create complexity, lending different layers of flavors and aromas. For example, a variety that creates a soft and full-bodied white wine blend, like Chardonnay, would do well combined with one that is more fragrant and naturally high in acidity. Sometimes small amounts of a particular variety are added to boost color or aromatics. Blending can take place before or after fermentation, with the latter, more popular option giving more control to the winemaker over the final qualities of the wine.

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The source of some of Italy’s best and most distinctive white wines, Friuli-Venezia Giulia is where Italian, Germanic and Slavic cultures converge. The styles of wines produced in this region of Italy's far north-east reflect this merging of cultures. Often shortened to just “Friuli,” the area is divided into many distinct subzones, including Friuli Grave, Colli Orientali del Friuli, Collio Goriziano and Carso. The flat valley of Friuli Grave is responsible for a large proportion of the region’s wine production, particularly the approachable Pinot grigio and the popular Prosecco. The best vineyard locations are often on hillsides, as in Colli Orientali del Friuli or Collio. In general, Friuli boasts an ideal climate for viticulture, with warm sunny days and chilly nights, which allow grapes to ripen slowly and evenly.

In Colli Orientali, the specialty is crisp, flavorful white wine made from indigenous varieities like Friulano (formerly known as Tocai Friulano), Ribolla gialla and Malvasia Istriana.

Red wines, though far less common here, can be quite good, especially when made from the deeply colored, rustic Refosco variety. In Collio Goriziano, which abutts Slovenia, many of the same varieties are planted. International varieties like Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Cabernet Franc are also common, but they tend to be Loire-like in style with herbaceous character and mellow tannins. Carso’s star grape is the red Teranno, notable for being rich in iron content and historically consumed for health purposes. It has an earthy, meaty profile and is often confused with the distinct variety Refosco.

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