Discover the top 100 best white wines of Friuli-Venezia Giulia as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the white wines that are popular of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Italian benchmark of great whites of elegance and minerality. Emblematic Friulano with notes of fresh almond, pear and white flowers, taut Ribolla Gialla, precise Pinot Grigio, lively Sauvignon and balanced Chardonnay. Rare sweet Picolit (DOCG), saline Malvasia Istriana. Rising reds: fruity spicy Refosco, more tannic Pignolo and Schioppettino.
Far north-east on the Austria-Slovenia borders. Collio, Colli Orientali, Friuli Grave.
Rich, ample whites with a golden robe, showing aromas of pear, quince, honey, smoke, ginger and spice. Made as structured dry wines (Alsace AOC), off-dry and sumptuous late-harvest sweet (vendange tardive, sélection de grains nobles). Lighter and crisper in Italy as Pinot Grigio (Veneto, Friuli). Also in Germany (Grauburgunder), Hungary (Szürkebarát) and Oregon. A grey mutation of Pinot Noir.
white wines from the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of spaghetti with homemade pesto, shrimp curry and coconut (thailand) or summer salad with red cabbage.
On the nose in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia often reveals types of flavors of apples, vanilla or pepper and sometimes also flavors of non oak, earth or microbio. In the mouth in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia is a powerful with a nice freshness.
