Miani, Ribolla Pettarin, 2022 NV [2022] packed with crunchy dark and

packed with crunchy dark and red fruit

giving the wine plenty of dark-fruited generosity

the rockier site at the bottom of the slope

barely-there sulfur

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Miani, Ribolla Pettarin, 2022 NV [2022] packed with crunchy dark andRibolla Gialla is Friuli's proudest native white grape, and this is Miani's only bottling of it, from the Pettarin vineyard in Rosazzo, long considered a grand cru site for the variety. The vines are extraordinary, between 80 and 100 years old, rooted in classic ponca marl, and because Ribolla is naturally vigorous, Enzo Pontoni slashes yields hard to concentrate the fruit. It ferments on its lees for about a year with no stirring, building texture