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Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 89.5 points

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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Vinous

  • By Ian D'Agata
    March/April 2008, IWC Issue #137, (See more on Vinous...)

    (Radikon Ribolla Venezia Giulia) Login and sign up and see review text.
  • By Antonio Galloni
    Exploring the Best of Northern Italy (Oct 2007), (See more on Vinous...)

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RJonWine.com

  • By Richard Jennings
    7/30/2009, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 88 points

    (Radikon Ribolla Gialla) Medium orange color with red lights and clear meniscus; high pitched, tart orange, mineral, yam nose with some reduction; tart orange, baked or dried orange, kumquat palate with medium acidity; medium finish (3 and 1/2 month maceration on the skins, including entire alcoholic fermentation; 4 times daily punchdowns, then racked into neutral "botte," large barrels that are used vintage after vintage, for 36 mo.; no SO2 ever added)

Rockss and Fruit

  • By Lyle Fass
    1/17/2008, (See more on Rockss and Fruit...)

    (Radikon Ribolla Gialla) This was maybe the best bottle of Radikon white wine I have ever had. Had a apricot skin color in the glass and celestial, I kid you not, celestial aromas of brown sugar, red-Pinot-like fruit, minerals and stone fruit skins. The palate has dazzling babbling brook-like minerality along with stellar concentration, great delineation and a long fruit-soaked finish. Exceptional wine that kept getting better and better as the night went on. Came in those very cute 500 ml bottles with the most adorable little cork. I will be buying some for the cellar for sure.

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