Bastianich Vini Orsone Friulano 2021

Profile & Story

Bastianich Winery was founded in 1997, when Lidia and Joe Bastianich planted their first vineyards at Cividale del Friuli, in one of Italy's most gifted zones for white wine. The family's connection to the region reaches back to the 1970s and 80s, to meetings with Friuli's important grower families and to championing their bottles on the lists of the family's restaurants in the United States. Every vineyard has been estate-owned since 1997 and lies in two distinct pockets of the Friuli Colli Orientali: the warmer, more southerly hills of Premariacco, which give the fuller-bodied Cru wines, and the hills of Cividale, swept on the coldest nights by the bora and yielding greater aromatic intensity. The defining soil is ponca, the Eocene clay marl of these hills, rich in limestone and poor in organic matter. Friulano belongs to the Vini Orsone line, named for Orsone, the family's agriturismo and restaurant at Cividale del Friuli, and gives the estate its most direct expression of the grape that has been grown in these hills for centuries.

Pairing Recommendation

San Daniele prosciutto and cured meats, Montasio and other fresh cheeses, and fish antipasti.