Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml)

Name: Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml)
Brand: Farm Wine Imports [FWI]
SKU: SF-3-FWI--050626-500ml17
Price: 74.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$74⁹⁹

Radikon 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 grow on clay, marl, and limestone right by the Slovenian border, on slopes originally planted by Stanko's grandfather and farmed without synthetics since 1995. Since Stanko's passing in 2016, his son Sasa, wife Suzana, and daughter Ivana have continued the work, making the wine the way it has always been made. The 500ml is the perfect format for one. An orange-wine-adjacent red unlike any other Merlot you've tasted.

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More about Radikon

Stanko Radikon was a true icon of both the traditional wines and grapes of Friuli and of uncompromising, natural winemaking. The type of winemaking that Stanko begin implementing in 1995 wasn't new, it was actually a return to how his grandfather made wine.

Using extended macerations, or skin contact, with white grapes is now a global trend known to many as "orange wine", but this is indeed the tradition in certain regions including the Italian-Slovenian borderlands of Friuli. It was only in the second half of the 20th century that the region focused on more "international" styled wines, without skin contact and with fining and filtration.

After working alongside his father for a few years, Stanko abandoned this style, realizing that the local grapes benefited greatly from the traditional methods of his region. He also began bottling everything in specially designed 500ml and 1 liter bottles, as he preferred these for both serving and aging. This uncompromising approach was a tough sell as far as marketing is concerned, but Stanko didn't care.

His stubborn insistence on tradition and quality eventually paid off, and his wines and his estate are now revered around the world. Sadly Stanko succumbed to cancer in 2016 at the age of 62. His children, led by his son Saša, have taken the reigns and are continuing his legacy.

Saša has been deeply involved in the farming and winemaking for over a decade, and he is devoted to his father's philosophy. That said he is his own person, thoughtful and serious minded but also practical and, in the right mood quite funny.