Gravner Ribolla 2014 Venezia Giulia IGT

Gravner Ribolla 2014 Venezia Giulia IGT

Gravner
$120.00

Grape: Ribolla Gialla
Vintage: 2014
Type: Orange

This ribolla gialla orange wine comes from a rainy and challenging vintage that yielded robust fruit primarily from the oldest estate vines. Josko Gravner guided the late October harvest through spontaneous native yeast fermentation and prolonged skin maceration inside clay amphorae. Following the drawing off and pressing phases, the liquid returned to clay for five months of natural settling. It completes its development through six years of maturation in neutral Slavonian oak casks.

It pours an amber hue with copper reflections, opening with aromas of dried cherries, plums, leather, and cedar shavings. On the palate, the medium-bodied frame is juicy and structured, balancing mature fruit with a fine-grained tannin grip. Savory notes of damp earth, black tea, and Mediterranean spices add depth across the fluid mouthfeel. A central beam of limestone acidity cuts right through the volume, keeping the palate refreshed. It finishes bone-dry, leaving a lasting mineral trace.

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.”