Miani, Bianco, 2023 SO021624_Collet There’s purity of fruit—think black

There’s purity of fruit—think black cherry

Vinified with native yeasts and aged on lees in tank and barrel

This is Barbera as it should be—simple

and structured for the long haul

Miani, Bianco, 2023 SO021624_Collet There’s purity of fruit—think blackFrom the man many consider Italy's greatest white winemaker, working out of a humble cellar in Friuli. Enzo Pontoni farms 15 hectares of steep, hilly vineyards in the Colli Orientali, on the region's classic ponca soils, a 60 to 80 million year old layering of marl and sandstone. He famously rarely leaves Friuli, tends every vine obsessively by hand, and makes microscopic quantities, well under 2,000 cases total across all his bottlings. The Bianco is