2024 | Ronco del Gnemiz | Sauvignon Sol Colli Orientali del Friuli

The 2024 Ronco del Gnemiz Sauvignon Sol from the Colli Orientali del Friuli is an intensely vibrant, textural white wine that marries striking mineral drive with rich, exotic fruit and subtle, masterful oak integration.

Producer Information

Ronco del Gnemiz is a highly revered, artisanal family-owned estate located atop the iconic Rosazzo hill within Friuli’s Colli Orientali del Friuli appellation, widely celebrated for crafting some of Northeast Italy's most profound, texturally complex, and age-worthy white and red wines. Originally purchased in 1964 as a holiday home by the Palazzolo family, the estate has been masterfully steered since the early 1990s by Serena Palazzolo and her renowned winemaker husband Christian Patat, who are now joined by their sons Jacopo, Zeno, and Giovanni. The estate manages roughly 14 to 16.5 hectares of certified organic vineyards perched on Friuli's prized, mineral-dense, multi-layered marl and sandstone soil known locally as Ponca, where the south-facing summer heat is beautifully tempered by cooling Adriatic Sea breezes and dry, sweeping Alpine Bora winds. Driven by a rigorous, site-specific cru philosophy, Patat strictly harvests, vinifies, and bottles individual plots independently to transparently mirror their unique terroirs, separating estate fruit from long-term rented parcels through distinct labeling styles. In the cellar, the winemaking philosophy follows an uncompromisingly natural approach: white varieties like Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, and Friulano ferment spontaneously with indigenous wild yeasts in neutral wood barrels and undergo extended aging sur lie without any mechanical adjustments or malolactic conversion (except for Chardonnay), while their classic, austere Bordeaux-style reds and indigenous Schioppettino undergo precise aging in traditional 228-liter French barriques. The resulting masterclass portfolio effortlessly marries lush, fully mature fruit with a laser-focused, razor-sharp salinity and energetic acidity that allows even their whites to cellar gracefully for a decade or more.

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