Meroi Chardonnay Friuli Colli Orientali 2023Founded in 1920 by Domenico Meroi in Buttrio, the heart of the Friulii Colli Orientali DOC in northeast Italy. Now run by Paolo Meroi, great grandson of the founder, From the excellent terroir of the region, and their carefully tended organic vineyards, Paolo crafts some of Italy's most thrillingly complex white wines. Coming from a selection of their vineyards, south facing on red marl soils, giving powerful concentration balanced by firm acidity.

This Tinto is a fresh

and then proceed with extreme selectivity

This produces a wine with ripe and moreish red fruit at the foreground and a soft

expressive wine that strikes a perfect harmony between ripe fruit and firm structure

The 25 acres of vineyards around the chateau are farmed organically

Certain to impress

he then converted it to biodynamics in 2002

but in the right hands produces wines that balances fresh aromatic fruit with fine tannic structure

yet remarkably open and drinkable for a youthful Gevrey

we realised that there were some real jewels amongst them

Pleasantly full-bodied

at the cold