2025 Billy Button ‘The Delinquent’ Verduzzo

Jo obviously has a thing for the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of North East Italy. Like Friulano, Verduzzo originates from the same Italian region. Jo knew very little about this variety before taking it on. What she did know was that it is a challenging variety to make because of its high phenolic content in the skin. Problem is, the flavour also exists in the skin, so how do you get the flavour out without making an excessively phenolic wine? Jo said, bring it on. What she discovered is that Verduzzo is a red wine disguised as a white wine. It is a wine not for the faint hearted, it is quite savoury with the phenolics giving the wine a firm structure that demands food, contrasted by an unexpected intensity of citrus and nashi pear fruit character. The fruit is sourced from the Antonello Vineyard at Buffalo Creek.

Ripe style, with optimal development of flavours.

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