Gravner Bianco Breg 2007 Venezia Giulia IGT
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Gravner Bianco Breg 2007 Venezia Giulia IGT

Gravner
$180.00

Grape: Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay, Riesling Italico
Vintage: 2007
Type: Orange

Produced during an optimal, dry growing season that yielded perfectly healthy grapes, this orange wine represents Josko Gravner's classic amphora methodology. The sauvignon blanc, pinot grigio, chardonnay, and riesling italico grapes ferment separately using only native wild yeasts without temperature control. Maceration occurs over several months inside subterranean Georgian amphorae buried deep in the cellar floor. It undergoes drawing off and pressing, returning to amphorae for five months before aging six years in large neutral oak casks.

It displays a bright copper-orange hue, releasing a complex nose of preserved lemon, white tea, dried stone fruit, and saffron. On the palate, the full-bodied, structured frame pairs savory fruit flavors with a unique, texturally gripping mouthfeel. Notes of roasted nuts and Mediterranean herbs blend into the fruit core across mid-palate volume. A racy vein of limestone acidity cuts through the texture, keeping the fluid frame balanced. It concludes with a long finish.

Long aged, long lived, and profound, we invite you to discover the magic that can be bottled in Italy’s North easternmost corner.

I make wines for myself. What’s left—I sell.’ Josko Gravner

In the hills above Gorizia, in sight of both the Julian Alps and the Adriatic, Joško Gravner’s family has made wine in the neighboring villages of Hum and Oslavia for generations.

Oslavia is a small hamlet near the town of Gorizia in the Friuli region, situated on the Collio.

The estate has a a total surface area of 32 hectares, of which 18 hectares are currently vineyards. The remaining land comprises woods, meadows and ponds.

A highly acclaimed producer of technical, stylish Friulian wines early in his career, Joško underwent a crisis of faith in the mid-1990’s, realizing that he simply didn’t enjoy drinking his own wines anymore. The story of his perilous journey into the Caucasus mountains and his encounters with millennia-old Georgian viticultural traditions has been well told by now, but it is not an exaggeration to say that Gravner is among those who prevented millennia-old vinicultural practices from disappearing from his homeland.

“Little by little I started getting rid of all the extra equipment I had bought, starting with steel wine tanks and ending with barrique barrels. I don't think it is possible that, over the last few decades, five thousand years of winemaking history have been erased so easily.”