Radikon Pignoli 2014 (500ml) 070226CRISP Seagrass highlights the grassy oceanside

Seagrass highlights the grassy oceanside notes we love in rye and the opulence and spice of finishing barrels

The result is an orange wine with real lift

Hardy Wallace's Right Bank impulse

vinified across an array of vessels (French oak barrels and foudres

Drink it young

Radikon Pignoli 2014 (500ml) 070226CRISP Seagrass highlights the grassy oceansideRadikon stands alone: no one does it like this Friulian superstar. As Eric Asimov put it, these wines "astound for their purity, their distinctiveness and their almost radical evocation of a pre modern age." Pignoli is the family's collector cuvee: an obscure Friulian red grape, notoriously low yielding and unforgiving in the vineyard, that Stanko championed when almost no one else would. The vines grow on clay, marl, and limestone above Oslavia,