{"product_id":"dario-princic-sivi-pinot-grigio-2020","title":"Dario Princic Sivi Pinot Grigio 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Land\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1947 border settlement drew a line straight through these hills, leaving Oslavia's Slovene-speaking farm families on the Italian side, a few hundred meters from Slovenia. Sivi is simply the Slovenian word for gray, the name Pinot Grigio carries at home in this bilingual corner of the Collio, above the town of Gorizia. Prinčič's Pinot Grigio grows on clay and limestone parcels within the estate's roughly 10 hectares of steep, southeast-facing, hand-worked vineyards, from vines the importer lists at an average of 60 years old. Warm days off the Adriatic and cool air from the Julian Alps stretch ripening into a harvest picked entirely by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePinot Grigio's skins are not white; at ripeness they turn a coppery gray-pink, which is why a single week of maceration yields a wine the color of polished copper. The 2020 fermented spontaneously in open wooden vats with no temperature control, the cap punched down by hand for seven days on the skins, then aged 30 months in old oak casks and three more in steel before bottling unfiltered with 15 to 20 mg\/l of sulfur, the only addition. Blood-orange peel, apricot, and bruised apple run into black-tea tannin and a saline finish that pulls you back to the glass. In the Collio, 2020 brought a warm, dry summer refreshed by September rains and an unhurried harvest that began in early September, and the vintage's balance shows in the wine's freshness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDario Prinčič has farmed without synthetic chemicals since 1988, founded his winery in Oslavia in 1993, and moved his entire production to skin maceration by 2000, following a path he helped establish alongside neighbors Gravner and Radikon. Nothing here is hurried: this Sivi spent nearly three years in the cellar before release, and the estate's steep, dense plantings are trimmed through summer to four or five bunches per vine for concentration. This is a benchmark of skin-contact Pinot Grigio, the maximalist answer to the neutral pinot grigio that made the grape famous.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProsciutto di San Daniele, Friuli's own, wants exactly this: salt against orchard fruit, fat against tannin. Seared duck breast with a cherry pan sauce meets the wine's structure the way a light red would. Porcini risotto with plenty of Parmigiano picks up the earthy, steeped-tea side, and miso-glazed salmon plays to its salinity. An orange wine from Friuli with the grip to anchor the whole table, from the salumi board through the main course.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Benny and Zoid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51288829886687,"sku":null,"price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/P8280223.jpg?v=1787961526","url":"https:\/\/denverwinemerchant.com\/products\/dario-princic-sivi-pinot-grigio-2020","provider":"Denver Wine Merchant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}