Gravner Ribolla “Anfora” 2006 Venezia Giulia IGT
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Gravner Ribolla “Anfora” 2006 Venezia Giulia IGT

Gravner
$180.00

Grape: Ribolla Gialla
Vintage: 2006
Type: Orange

Produced during a dry and stable growing season, this orange wine is sourced from healthy, robust ribolla gialla grapes completely free of noble rot. Josko Gravner utilizes traditional low-intervention protocols, allowing the hand-picked fruit to ferment spontaneously with native wild yeasts inside buried Georgian amphorae. The fruit undergoes an extended skin maceration without temperature control before being drawn off and pressed gently. It matures for five months in clay followed by five years in large neutral Slavonian oak casks.

It exhibits a translucent amber color, releasing a refined nose of dried apple skin, lemon zest, white flowers, and warm spice. A medium-to-full-bodied frame pairs crisp fruit flavors with a chiseled, crystalline mineral undercurrent. A racy vein of natural acidity cuts right through the slightly waxy texture, keeping the mouthfeel lively. Subtle notes of raw almond and marine salinity add deep structural balance across mid-palate. It finishes long, dry, and persistent.

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.”