Slatnik Radikon 80% Chardonnay, 20% Tocai, 12 days on the skins, biodynamic wine, complex yet easy drinking orange wine. Radikon Slatnik for a wine of this complexity, you would expect it to be a little heavy going but no, you just can t stop drinking it, 20 mins and the bottle's gone, fabulous stuff! I first drank it after having posed for a natural wine calendar in a 100% natural state! As you can imagine, we all needed a drink after posing nude and the bottle of Slatnik we opened took 5 mins between 3 of us. It is fantastic wine, rich and bold but as with all of Radikon's wines, there is this vein of acid which makes it so fresh. With an open mind, you can drink this as aperitif, with any food, meat or fish, and with nutty Italian cheeses, it is excellent.
| Production Method | Natural, Biodynamic, Organic |
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| Producer | Radikon |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Friuli, Italy |
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Wine Type | Orange Wine |
| Wine Style | Full bodied |
| Grape | Chardonnay |
| Terroir | Collio features sloped, terraced vineyards and soil – called “ponca” in dialect – that gives lots of minerality to the wines. Ponca, or flysch, has layers and blends of minerals from the prehistoric sea bed, clay and sandstone. |
| Alcohol | 14% abv |
| Total Sulphur | 18 mg/l |
| Maturation | 18 months in 35 hectolitre oak barrels |
| Annual Production | 0 - 5,000 bottles |
| Ageing Potential | Magnum should age well, 6-8 years |
| Food Matching | Vegan Dishes, Hard Cheese, Umami, Rich Sauces, Spicy Foods, Curries |
