2020 Radikon Jakot 500ml
2020 Radikon Jakot 500ml

2020 Radikon Jakot 500ml

Radikon |Friuli |Friulano
An extreme example of natural skin-contact wine from one of the most iconic names in Friulian wine.
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$94.00
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Description

This wine from the Radikon family has a controversial history.

This wine is made from the grape formerly known as Tocai Friulano. It's the variety that Stanko Radikon would refer to as "Tokaj", before it was banned by law to call it so. Hence the name, Jakot (Tokaj spelt backwards).

Now, the variety has been completely revised and has been discovered to be a relative of Sauvignon Blanc known as Sauvignon Vert. It's a slightly less aromatic version of Sauvignon which makes the perfect base for an extended-maceration orange wine.

It's a wild burnt orange colour in the glass, the flavours span from Campari-esque bitter to herbal and savoury.

Lots of tannin, lots of everything, except additions, that is.

"Radikon’s wines, together with neighbour and erstwhile colleague Joško Gravner, achieved a remarkable consistency and character with their slightly wild, deep, autumnal flavours and beguiling complexity."
- Simon Woolf (Decanter)

"It’s a remarkable site, fit snug into the typical rolling hills and dales of the region, tended daily by hand to ensure greatest health of fruit and optimum (low) yield. A family affair where son Sasa and father Stanko ebb and flow from winery to vineyard and back again."
- Mike Bennie (The Wine Front)

100% Tocai Friulano, hand harvested in September 2020.

All the vineyards are located in Oslavia and in the surroundings; it’s a small village belonging to Gorizia, in the north-eastern part of Italy, near the border with Slovenia. The rain is quite often, around 1200/1300 mm/year, but there’s usually a good wind that dries the vines right after and a good temperature range. The soil is called “ponka” or “ponca”, a particular type of compressed clay/marl of Eocene period, rich in minerals. Quite all vineyards are exposed to South or South/East on sloping hills full of grass. The density is high, but few bunches per vine allow to keep an extremely low quantity of production (around 3/3,5 tons/hectar, instead of 11 allowed by the DOC Collio). The average age of the vines of Tocai Friulano is about 30 years old. For treatments we use only cupper and sulphur and only if needed some cover crop. The idea is to balance the soil with low-intervention actions, promote biodiversity and restore a more natural shape of the hills (while replanting a vineyard when needed), limiting erosion and landslides risk.

Vintage 2020: Everyone has their own memories for this particular year; here it is remembered as one of our best vintages. From Spring on, the vintage was always balanced: good distribution of rain and sun, temperatures always in the average, a mild summer. Harvest started in the second decade of September, with warm and sunny days and perfect cool nights, with excellent ventilation. We couldn’t ask for more.

Wine-making: After taking off the grape stalks, the grape is put in oak vats, where maceration is held without any temperature control or chemical yeasts adding. Grape skins must be always covered with wine: that’s why during all the fermentation the cap is punched down manually two times per day. At the end of the alcoholic fermentation vats are filled and the wine stays in contact with the skins for about three months, and here takes place also the malolactic fermentation.

Cask aging: After the racking, the wine rests in rover casks (25 to 35 hl capacity) for about 3 years: in the meantime, more than one racking could be necessary.

Racking in bottles: The wine is bottled with a little addition of sulfites (total sulphur dioxide 8 mg/L), in August 2023, in bottles of 1 liter and 0,50 liters. The wine is aged in bottle before selling for at least one year and a half.

13,5% vol.

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Amber
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Friulano
Country Italy
Region Friuli
Feature Biodynamic
Cult
Low Preservative
Natural/Lo-Fi
Organic
Alcohol 13.5%
Size 500ml
Vintage 2020
Closure Cork

Radikon

The Radikon family's vineyard holdings cover some 18 hectares of steep slopes in and around Oslavia, near the Slovenia/Italy border. Since 1980, Stanislao (Stanko) Radikon has made the wines alongside his wife Suzana. Their son, Sasa, has taken up the reins and is now the vocal frontman for the family business.

These wines are the benchmark for an unwavering commitment to the natural wine movement. The famous amber wines are made with extremely long skin maceration, years of time in barrel and a long rest in bottle before release. This process reveals wines that are deeply golden in colour, firmly structured, wild and of a singular character.

Radikon is not for the faint of heart. If you are a skin contact new-comer, the wines can be challenging at first. However, if you are an aficionado the style, these are some of the rarest and most sought-after creations in this genre that can be found anywhere in the world.

Saša Radikon in their family cellar Radikon

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