(2025) Eight months maturation in new oak barriques for this white Merlot, apparently winemaker Guido Brivi setting out to make a Burgundian-style white wine. Made from gently pressing Merlot, it has a tinge of pink to the colour. From quartz and granite soils, it is fermented and matured in new French oak barriques for eight months. It certainly wears the oak quite lightly, adding an earthy nuttiness to fairly neutral, apple fruit. On the palate it is balanced and really quite concentrated, the oak showing up as a light spice and vanilla edge. It's a nice wine, but the price is problematic.
