Features
Name:
Schioppetino Rosso Cru Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2020
Terrain:
Marls and sandstones of Eocene origin better known as "ponca"
Winery
It all began in the sixties, when grandfather Min and then father Livio started a story that still lives on in Massimo and Marco Zorzettig's Tunella, guardians, together with their mother Gabriella, of more than fifty years of family tradition. In the Tunella of today live together the present and the memory, the desire to experiment and the highest traditions of the Colli Orientali del Friuli: a present that day after day builds its future.
Our winery is called Tunella since 2002: the new name, which replaced the previous Livio Zorzettig, is a toponym which indicates a farmhouse and a hill located near the winery, among meadows and vineyards surrounded by the sweet landscape of Colli Orientali.
Although Tunella is a company with a long history, we have never abandoned the maniacal attention that distinguishes every little winemaker when he works in his vineyard. It is not by chance that our philosophy is "to do little in order 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 are 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 flavors and scents, we pay attention to the sustainability of production.
Description
Locally known as ribolla nera, schioppettino is one of the most important autochthonous grapes of Friuli. The wines produced from it are in fact red wines of great elegance, enveloping and full bodied. A wine, the one of La Tunella, which stands out for its unique character, whose natural wildness is partially mitigated by a permanence in large French oak casks for about two years. A magnetic tasting.
Organoleptic characteristics:
It has a dark red color which tinges the glass while letting thick and consistent bows slip.
Shaking it in the glass, it opens to the nose with elegant and full aromas ranging from dried figs to nuts, to balsamic aromas of wood with a slight background of small black berried fruits. In the mouth it is ample and firm: it envelops the palate with a velvety touch while showing compactness and vigor in its noble component of well blended tannins, thus re-proposing in an orderly succession the whole olfactory spectrum.
Storage time:
4-10 years old
Vinification
fermentation with indigenous yeasts in contact with the skins for about 20 days with frequent pumping over
Acknowledgements
2019 Luca Maroni90/100
