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Radikon
Slatnik
2017
4.1
Region
Italy › Friuli-Venezia Giulia › IGP Venezia Giulia
Type
white · still
Grapes
Chardonnay
Alcohol
13%
Volume
750 mL
Sugar
0.1 g/L
Tasting Notes(2)
4.1
Delicious - bonus bottle served blind, clearly Friulian and not from a Gravner bottle. Less polished than the Oslavia register Joško Gravner works in, funkier in a way that pulled me toward Radikon. I landed on the S-line (Slatnik or thereabouts) because the fruit ran rounder and more open than the edgier, more nervous register of Stanko's longer-skin-contact wines - the S-line has always been Radikon's friendlier side. Pencil shavings open the nose, then VA and hairspray cut through, with apricot jam and persimmon settling underneath. Long on the palate, mineral, properly complex - the kind of orange that gives you something new every minute in the glass.
About
Slatnik is the entry into the Radikon 'S' line, the friendlier 750ml format Saša Radikon launched in 2009 alongside his father Stanko's classic 500ml range. The blend is roughly 80% Chardonnay and 20% Friulano from the Slatnik plot in Oslavia, with eight to fourteen days on the skins and around a year in large old botti - far shorter than the long-maceration Oslavia cuvées. The S-line was conceived as a more accessible window into the house style, and it has stayed that way under Saša since Stanko's death in 2016.
