2019 Radikon ‘Jakot’ 1 Liter Venezia Giulia IGT, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

100% Tocai Friulano. All of Radikon’s whites are made in the same way: the organically farmed, stunningly low-yield, hand-harvested fruit is destemmed and gently crushed with a pneumatic press. It is placed in old Slavonian oak vats and fermented with native yeasts. It macerates with the skins for around 3 monthshowever long it takes to reach total dryness–with no temperature control and no sulfur. The wine is racked and aged on its lees in huge Slavonian oak casks (25-35-hectoliter) for 3-4 years, racked twice a year. The wine is then bottled without sulfur and without filtration. The bottles are aged for several years before release. Jakot is a thumbing of the nose at the EUa reversal of Tokajsince the use of the word Tokai/Tokaj was banned for the grape except in Hungary.