2022 Miani Merlot Colli Orientali del Friuli, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy 1.5L Magnum Chateau Grand Village • Practicing Organic• 100% Chardonnay•

• Practicing Organic• 100% Chardonnay• Sourced from Trout Gulch Vineyard (Santa Cruz Mountains AVA)• East facing site • Sand and lifted shallow seabed soils• 35-40-year-old own-rooted vines• Hand-harvested• Crushed on the stem and pressed• Fermented in 7–12-year-old barrels with complete malo• Aged in barrel for 12 months on gross lees• Racked and consolidated into stainless steel for an additional 3-6 months prior to bottling• 12

clean and complex Fino from the hands of a master Capataz

with very little topsoil and a huge amount of “Bluestone” rock just below the surface

nourished by values and flavours

2022 Miani Merlot Colli Orientali del Friuli, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy 1.5L Magnum Chateau Grand Village • Practicing Organic• 100% Chardonnay•The early Merlots were made from a combination of fruit from Rosazzo and Buttrio, but in 2004 Pontoni began experimenting with bottling the wines separately; giving birth to his Merlots Filip (Rosazzo) and Buri (Buttrio). This blends the different sites on the estate.