Community Tasting Notes 13

• Rollerball wrote: 90 points

  November 23, 2018 - Funkier but less appealing than the oslavje. Flavors of peppermint and sweet sage, then on day two it smelled like red burg and tasted like rhubarb tea, fennel, faint strawberries in sugar water, cherry jolly rancher, dried apricots, and earth. Don’t drink too cold.

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• kanjimoti wrote: 90 points

  February 4, 2014 - While not as expressive as I had hoped, the '02 Radikon Ribolla Gialla does have that exotic herb and spice nose I always look forward to. I've had Radikon whites, or oranges, on several occasions but they have the Jakot which I find more flamboyant and more giving. The 02 Ribolla Gialla is still going strong with very good palate presence, bold acid, and a clean somewhat spicy finish. I opened this for the Seahawks/Broncos Super Bowl fiasco and there was plenty to go around as this was from a liter bottle. Tons of sediment. A game you might say was way out of balance. I don't see this improving from liter so I would opt to drink it by Spring, 2016.

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• cweiss wrote:

  April 7, 2011 - Rather bright orange. Next impression is bgtime tannin but over time layers of red fruits, citrus and mineral emerge. The white wine to have with steak?

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• bg2167 wrote:

  July 20, 2010 - It is with great disappointment that I write this note. Tonight, while adding a new bottle to my already overcrowded pull-out Eurocave shelf, this bottle popped out and broke. Luckily, I was able to salvage 1 glass and am enjoying it now. I definitely see the lemon tea mentioned previously and love the orange and minerality. The tannins didn't bother me at all nor did I sense any oxidation. I will definitely be purchasing another bottle despite it hovering around $40 for a 500ml and will be very curious to see how this develops.

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• french16 wrote:

  October 15, 2009 - My first encounter with those famous "orange wines". Right after opening the bottle, nose was like an old burgundy and I meand a red burg ! Yeah yeah I know this is a white wine but there was this old sweet cherry notes, very interesting. It then evolved to tea scents, orange, floral. After a week, nose as like pure oregano juice.
  Palate always seems a little oxidized and too me is not as interesting as the nose. A little flabby, tanninc, lemon tea, again some hint of pinot noir like notes...
  Overall it was reallly really interesting but the palate is just too flabby for me. 91 for the nose, 87 for the palate.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2002
• Type Orange
• Producer Radikon
• Varietal Ribolla Gialla
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Italy
• Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation Venezia Giulia IGT

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• Consumed 36 (73%)

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