Features
Name:
Schioppetino Rosso Cru Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2020
Terrain:
Marls and sandstones of Eocene origin better known as 'ponca'.
Cellar
It all began in the 1960s, when grandfather Min and then father Livio started a story that still lives on in the Tunella of Massimo and Marco Zorzettig, guardians, together with their mother Gabriella, of more than fifty years of family tradition. In today's Tunella, modernity and memory coexist, the desire to experiment and the highest traditions of the Colli Orientali del Friuli: a present that day after day builds its future.
Our company has been called Tunella since 2002: the new name, which has supplanted the previous Livio Zorzettig, is a place-name that indicates a farmhouse and a hill located in the vicinity of the winery, amidst meadows and vineyards immersed in the gentle landscape of the Colli Orientali.
Although Tunella is a company with a well-established history, we have never abandoned the maniacal attention that characterises every small winemaker when he works in his vineyard. It is no coincidence that our philosophy is 'do little to do better': this is the only way we can offer something of excellent quality and at the same time absolutely unique and personal.
Inside every Tunella bottle there is the earth, the sun, the rain, the wind: because wine collects everything it receives. And because we want those who will come after us to enjoy the same flavours and fragrances, we pay attention to the sustainability of production.
Description
Also known locally as ribolla nera (black ribolla), schioppettino is one of Friuli's most important indigenous grape varieties. Those that derive from it are in fact red wines of great elegance, enveloping and full. A wine, that of La Tunella, that stands out for its unique character, whose natural wildness is partially subdued by a stay in large French oak barrels for about two years. A magnetic taste.
Organoleptic characteristics:
It presents itself in a dark red guise that tinges the glass, leaving thick, consistent arches.
Shaking it in the glass, it opens to the nose with elegantly full and decisive aromas ranging from dried figs to nuts, to balsamic wood aromas with a slight undertone of small black berries. In the mouth, it is ample and decisive: it envelops the palate with a velvety touch while remaining compact and vigorous in its noble component of well-amalgamated tannins, thus re-proposing the entire olfactory spectrum in an orderly succession.
Storage time:
4-10 years
Vinification
fermentation with indigenous yeasts in contact with the skins for about 20 days with frequent pumping over
Acknowledgements
2019 Luca Maroni90/100
