Historically a wine of the great European nobility, Picolit is considered a "meditation wine" of great prestige, a true Friulian rarity.
Put four high school friends over dinner one night, a raspberry Bavarian cream and a Picolit that many know but very few have drunk, and magic is accomplished. He becomes the protagonist: a scurvy, unprofitable vine with major problems with flower abortion, which determines its joys and sorrows. The few berries per cluster left on the vine for a long time to create a rarity, sweet but not overly so, thanks to its refreshing verticality and its austere, compelling pacing.
A pity to find few interesting ones, even worse the risk of losing this grape variety that is so reminiscent of its land and its inhabitants, shy, of few words but of great charm.
What we drank is from the company Livio Felluga, which even several years after the patriarch’s passing, continues to offer great wines, easily recognizable by the classic and famous label with the map. An ancient map of the hill area of Friuli proposed on the label since 1956. A label that thus symbolizes the company’s close ties with its territory, the Colli Orientali del Friuli.
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