I Clivi di Ferdinando Zanusso, Collio Bianco, “Clivi Brazan”

We are back in Friuli-Venezia Giulia with SommSelect’s Editorial Director, David Lynch, where the Zanusso family continues to hit it out of the park with textured, ageworthy Friulano. This is a grape, a place, and a producer anyone who’s serious about white wine needs to know!When I first came onboard at SommSelect, I was anxious to get some Friulian white wine in the mix, and the one I chose to lead with was a “sister” bottling to this wine from I Clivi. As an Italian wine lover who’s not always enthralled by the ‘orange’ wines that have become a Friulian calling card—the region, home to greats such as Gravner and Radikon, is the spiritual home of skin-contact ‘whites’—I appreciate the crisp, clean, and yes, conventional white wines of I Clivi. If you like minerality, bright fragrances, and energy in your white wines—as in white Burgundy, or Austrian Grüner Veltliner, or Spanish Albariño—the whites of I Clivi need to be part of your repertoire. The Friuli-Venezia Giulia region is best