Vodopivec IGT Venezia Giulia Vitovska 'Solo' 2019 Size:750ml with succulent red fruit balanced

with succulent red fruit balanced by the touch of tannin

Lapio’s cool microclimate

this comes from a 1910 planting of just 13 rows

This cuvée is both a vineyard and a barrel selection: Xavier employed a half-hectare 1981 planting of Syrah (with 6% interplanted Viognier)

The vines are of an average age of 40 years and are planted on gravelly soil

Vodopivec IGT Venezia Giulia Vitovska 'Solo' 2019 Size:750ml with succulent red fruit balancedPaolo produces Solo from what he considers his greatest vineyard, a 1. 3 hectare parcel of pure limestone. Aged like the basic Vitovska fermented in amphorae and aged in large Slavonian bottiits nose is gorgeous and spellbinding, striking in its purity and unadulterated mineral essence, subtler than the T yet more intense and layered than the basic Vitovska. It comes across as almost weightless on the palate, an offering of pure texture and pure stone