Radikon RS Rosso 2020

Radikon RS Rosso 2020

Radikon
$40.00

Grape: Merlot, Pignolo
Vintage: 2020
Type: Red

This red wine represents a youthfully blend of seventy-five percent merlot and twenty-five percent of the structured indigenous pignolo grape. Saša Radikon crafts this cuvée from the estate's organic vineyards in Oslavia, which are rooted in mineral-dense marl and sandstone soils. The fruit undergoes a gentle fifteen-day skin maceration inside neutral oak vats with native wild yeasts, which is a shorter timeline than the blue-label flagships. It ages for roughly a year and a half in large neutral oak botti before bottling.

It pours a deep ruby-purple color, releasing vivid aromas of crushed black cherries, blackberries, cedar shavings, and fresh sage. On the palate, the medium-bodied frame is energetic and racy, pairing racy wild berry fruits with a balanced touch of volatile acidity. Fine-grained, chalky tannins from the pignolo component provide a smooth structural grip across the fluid mouthfeel. It finishes long and fresh, leaving a clean trail of currant.

Radikon is one of the foundational names of the modern skin-contact and natural-wine movement. Based in Oslavia, in Friuli near the Slovenian border, the Radikon family built its identity around long macerations for white grapes, minimal sulfur and a deeply traditional approach that had become radical by modern standards. Stanko Radikon helped bring these methods to international attention, and the estate continues under his family with Ribolla Gialla, Jakot, Pinot Grigio and other varieties. The wines are amber, structured and savory, less about novelty than about reviving a borderland culture of patience, texture and uncompromising farming.