2019 Studio di Bianco

The current release 2019s from Borgo del Tiglio were very exciting to taste. This was a vintage of ups and downs with a warm and dry winter, a cool and rainy spring and a hot summer. However, the climate cooperated with growers through late August and into harvest with strong diurnal shifts and cooler temperatures that brought balance. The result is a set of young wines with more textural richness and vivid fruit than you usually expect at this early stage, yet they don’t come across as warm-vintage wines. Instead there’s a harmony of fruit, acids and minerals that will promise many years of positive development. I tasted the 2019 Studio di Bianco from two separate bottles, one of which was opened the previous day and showed no sign of decline. Only in the case of the 2019 Ronco della Chiesa, a varietal Friulano, did I find some confectionary tones. Granted, the Brazzano cru that informs the Ronco della Chiesa surrounds the winery itself and is known to be the warmest location Borgo del Tiglio sources from, whereas the Collio Bianco and the single-vineyard Studio di Bianco come from a cooler location further into the hills near the small village of Ruttars.