2015 | Josko Gravner | Ribolla

This is a profound orange wine from the visionary winemaker Josko Gravner, possessing intense flavours of dried fruit, resin, dried flowers, aromatic herbs and nuts.

Producer Information

Josko Gravner is a leading winemaker in the Collio Goriziano region, in northeastern Italy, on the border with Slovenia. He is known for his unique, long-lived wines, made using ancient, minimal intervention methods, and is especially associated with the production of orange wines, particularly his Ribolla. He is considered one of the fathers of the modern amber/orange wine movement. Gravner's land holdings cover 32 hectares (79 acres), with 15 hectares (37 acres) planted to vines. The focus is on the the Ribolla grape variety, which accounts for 85 percent of plantings. Other grape varieties include Pignolo, and small parcels of Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Gravner's non-vineyard land includes former vineyards that were uprooted and returned to a wild state. Since the 2001 vintage, following Gravner's visit to the country, all of Josko Gravner's wines have been fermented for six to seven months in large amphorae (qvevri) imported from Georgia. These are buried in the cellar in the traditional way, and need no temperature control and little intervention. Following fermentation, the wines can be left on skins in the qvevri (for a total of a around six months' maceration). The wines are then aged for three years in oak casks of various sizes, with many wines released around seven years after the harvest date. Production in both the vineyards and winery follows lunar phases – for example, the wines are only bottled during a waning moon. A notable neighbor is the fellow minimal-intervention, orange wine producer Saša Radikon.

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