Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) NO20230705 and polished tannins that suggest

and polished tannins that suggest years of graceful development ahead

this wine demands cellaring but rewards patient collectors with complexity that defines the region's elite

and the value is stunning

and that original scrap of gnarled

Radikon Merlot 2020 (500ml) NO20230705 and polished tannins that suggestRadikon stands alone: no one does it like this Friulian superstar. As Eric Asimov put it, these wines "astound for their purity, their distinctiveness and their almost radical evocation of a pre modern age." The Merlot comes from old plantings on the family's Oslavia estate and gets the same patient treatment as the whites: extended skin contact (a given for a red, but here taken much further), then long aging in large neutral Slavonian oak. The vines