Ribolla Gialla 2021 - Ronco Severo

Ribolla Gialla - Ronco Severo

Ronco Severa's Ribolla Gialla is a full-bodied and sapid macerated white wine made from 100% Ribolla Gialla grapes, a native Friulian grape variety. The grapes come from vines that rest on the classic Friulian marly-clayey soil, called Ponca. They are harvested with a slight late ripening and fermented in 10 hl truncated cone vats with a long maceration on the skins. The aging in contact with the fine lees in Slavonian oak barrels continues for 11 months. Svinato is left to mature for another 12 months or so in the same barrels.The Ribolla di Ronco Severo is golden yellow in color. On the nose the scent of flowers, dried fruit and citrus fruits, with notes of flint. In the mouth it is enveloping, very fresh, slightly tannic due to maceration on the skins. It closes along with a slight spicy accent.

Service

We taste the Ribolla Gialla at a temperature of 12/14 ° in tulip glasses. Wine to drink immediately but will express its best in a few years. It is advisable to keep it in a horizontal position in a cool, damp and dark cellar.

Pairings

Excellent as an aperitif, with appetizers and main courses of fish, to try with a shrimp omelette.

Winery: Ronco Severo

The Ronco Severo company is located in Prepotto, in the province of Udine. A place particularly suited to the production of wine in fact, we find ourselves within the denomination Colli orientali del Friuli that borders with Slovenia. Historical company of the area, was the grandfather of Stefano Novello, the current owner, Severo Novello, who is said that as a child had the passion to produce wine, to buy from the noble family Rieppi family to Prepotto, the first land located on a hilly ridge, exceptional for exposure and terrain characteristics. Severo will call this place "Ronco Severo" because it took years of hard work to tear up the terraces to plant the vines. The turning point came when Stefano, with a background in the wine sales sector, decided to change the wine production method and philosophy. Natural wines produced through careful work in the vineyard and in the cellar, so that all its wines can reflect its work and the territory it belongs to. This belief led him to abandon all chemical products and to reduce the intervention in the vineyard and in the cellar to the minimum necessary. In the grassed vineyards, it does not use inorganic fertilizers and herbicides, in the cellar it does not use enzymes, selected and sulphurous yeasts. Only long macerations to extract substances that produce wines with a very intense color, longevity that sometimes are slightly veiled because they do not undergo either filtration or clarification. Stefano cultivates only native vines such as Pinot Grigio, Friulano, Ribolla gialla, Picolit, Refosco del peduncolo rosso and Schioppettino. All vineyards that are located on that wonderful land that is only Friuli called Ponca, able to give extraordinary results.