Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) modified_title_tag Ageing in steel and large

Ageing in steel and large barrel on fine lees for eight months

and that signature Graves smokiness

Terah Bajjalieh

building complexity and precision

vintage-variable

Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) modified_title_tag Ageing in steel and largeRadikon stands alone: no one does it like this Friulian superstar. As Eric Asimov put it, these wines "astound for their purity, their distinctiveness and their almost radical evocation of a pre modern age." The Merlot comes from old plantings on the family's Oslavia estate and gets the same patient treatment as the whites: extended skin contact (a given for a red, but here taken much further), then long aging in large neutral Slavonian oak. The vines