FRIULI

 

FRANCO TOROS (Cormons/Collio)

Franco Toros makes the most intense examples of Pinot Grigio, Tocai Fruilano and Pinot Bianco we have come across in Friuli. Here is his top-class, top-shelf, top-quality Pinot Bianco from the sweetest sweet-spot in Friuli, not the ÒCollio OrientaliÓ, the ÒCollioÓ. La-di-dah! Treated to a spell in some new oak, the Pinot Bianco is very vinous, serious, almost Burgundian in its finesse. A refreshing change from all that Meursault we drink!

FrancoÕs Tocai Fruilano is magnificently complex, packed with nuts, delicate flowers, a hint of mandarin oil. Do not ask our colleague (half-Hungarian) Kristian what he thinks of the Friulian use of the word ÒTocaiÓ, unless you are ready for a ten minute tirade.

 

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PINOT BIANCO

2005

19.99