RS Rosso, 2022

Black cherry and blackberry with a little cedar and sage. The red from Saša Radikon's younger, earlier-drinking range: mostly Merlot, with a quarter Pignolo.

RS is Rosso Saša, the red of Saša Radikon's S line, made to drink sooner than his family's long-aged classics. Merlot and Pignolo from a south-facing slope beside the winery in Oslavia are picked by hand and fermented together with wild yeast, sitting on their skins for one to two weeks before resting in big oak casks. It opens with crushed black cherry and blackberry, with cedar shavings and sage behind. Organic, unfined, unfiltered, with only a touch of sulphur at bottling.