2020 Vie di Romans Sauvignon Blanc Piere

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 91.5 points

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  7/30/2022 - forceberry wrote: 90 Points

  100% Sauvignon Blanc from the Piere vineyard, planted mainly to Italian clones with loose clusters rather than more tightly-packed French clones. Average vine age 18 years. Harvested in the first half of September, 2020. The grapes are first crushed and cold-soaked, after which they are fermented for three weeks in cool temperatures with selected yeasts. The wine is aged for 8 months on the lees in stainless steel tanks, MLF is blocked. The wine is left to settle and clarify naturally. Bottled in May 2021. 14,52% alcohol, 5,75 g/l acidity and pH 3,46.
  
  Youthful, pale lime-green color. Expressive and varietally correct nose with aromas of grilled green asparagus and passion fruit, some cat's pee, light resinous notes of hop cones, a little bit of currant leaf, a hint of of fresh apple and a sweeter touch of juicy white fruits. The wine feels broad and quite concentrated on the palate with a rather full body yet coming across as surprisingly firm and fresh. Intense flavors of white peach, some tart passion fruit, a little bit of mango, light vegetal notes of currant leaves and grilled asparagus, a hint of boxwood and a touch of crunchy greencurrants. The acidity feels high and structured, whereas the rather pronounced alcohol lends some heat to the palate. The finish is ripe and broad yet firm and palate-cleansing with a long, dry and crunchy aftertaste of whitecurrants, some passion fruit, a little bit of waxy richness, light green notes of currant leaves, a hint of ripe Golden Delicious apple and a vegetal touch of cut grass. The high alcohol makes the wine end on a somewhat warm note.
  
  A quite warm and rather modern Sauvignon Blanc with a lot of substance, fruit and intensity. To me, this wine doesn't really speak that much of place or terroir rather than cultivar - this feels like a stereotype of a high-quality Sauvignon Blanc that deft hands could've made in any part of the world where SB grows. There's no denying the fruit quality is very high indeed here and the wine shows great sense of balance, structure and intensity despite its obvious ripeness (and resulting high alcohol), but somehow I feel quite a bit of character, persona and sense of terroir gets masked by the somewhat anonymous, modern winemaking. This is obviously a great and impressive wine that will continue to improve for many years more, probably peaking after another decade or so, but somehow the very modern and technical style of the wine leaves me a bit unmoved.

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  7/29/2022 - Lype Likes this wine:

  Fresh and attractive, tropical fruit, green lime, grape fruit, papaya and more, good matching acidity. Very enjoyable now but will get better. This is one of the leading producers in the area, a winery which maintains high quality level throughout its selection. Quite typically to many producers in the area this probably does not strongly display "terroir" or anything distinctly original other than the fact that in Friuli good producers make great white wines, often at a reasonable price like the one here.

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