Radikon Sivi 2023
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Radikon Sivi 2023

Radikon
$46.00

Grape: Pinot Grigio
Vintage: 2023
Type: Orange

This skin-contact orange wine is a pure expression of pinot grigio from Saša Radikon's accessible line in Oslavia. The fruit is hand-harvested from certified organic rows rooted in ponca soils, which are a regional mixture of marl and sandstone. The winemaking features a shortened ten-to-fourteen day skin maceration inside traditional wood vats driven by native wild yeasts. The liquid matures for a year and a half in large thirty-five-hundred liter neutral Slavonian oak botti and is bottled unfiltered with minimal sulfur.

It glows with a striking copper-salmon hue, releasing lifted aromatics of wild strawberries, blood orange zest, ginger, and rhubarb. A light-to-medium frame balances fruit concentration with a crystalline streak of vibrant, alpine acidity. The brief skin contact imparts a beautiful framework of fine-grained, tea-like tannins that provides notable structure without drying out the mouth. It sails into a long finish, leaving a salty trail of stone.

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.