Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) CRV5 whole-cluster maceration in concrete and

whole-cluster maceration in concrete and ceramic

black pepper and a light mineral finish

This rye is made from an ultra-rare

but no bush league value

Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) CRV5 whole-cluster maceration in concrete andRadikon 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