Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) NO20230705 Matthew Rorick's skin-fermented orange wine

Matthew Rorick's skin-fermented orange wine from his organically farmed Rorick Heritage Vineyard

Paolo Cianferoni has been farming Caparsa

aromatic and delicious

and polished tannins that suggest years of graceful development ahead

Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) NO20230705 Matthew Rorick's skin-fermented orange wineRadikon 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