Description
Ferdinando Zanusso grew up around wine—his father was an amateur winemaker who owned a tavern in Treviso—but it wasn’t until he’d moved to West Africa, occasioning him to travel often through (and dine in) Paris, that he actually learned to like the stuff. In 1996 he purchased a vineyard in Friuli and returned home to make wine. Today, his son Mario is at the helm producing exquisitely charismatic wines that capture the sunny slopes in NE Italy like this blend of 50% Ribolla Gialla, 40% Friulano, and 10% Malvasia Istriana. It tastes like ripe peaches and crushed stones flowing down a saline-tinged stream of acidity. Profound.