Galea, 2023

For anyone who finds most Italian whites too thin: this one is soft, deep and honeyed, from vines planted in the 1940s.

A rich, soft white from seventy-year-old vines on a hill near the Slovenian border. Mostly Friulano, with a splash of Verduzzo that adds a little grip. Flowers and ripe yellow fruit open up into honey, almond and a flinty, stony edge, with a long finish. Fuller than most northern Italian whites, and made simply: wild yeast, steel tanks, no oak.