The 2005 Pignacolusse Campi dei Fratti e Monache is an impressive wine. A perfumed, expressive bouquet melds seamlessly into a core of raspberries, flowers, spices and minerals as this impeccably elegant wine opens up in the glass. Medium in body, the 2005 Pignacolusse possesses outstanding length and a poised, finessed finish. Pignacolusse is a wine that in its short history has proven to age nicely in bottle, taking on gorgeous aromatic complexity over time. This is a great effort from Silvio Jermann and his team, who have managed to tame the formidable Pignolo tannins to a degree I have never previously encountered. Anticipated maturity: 2010-2020. This set of new releases from Silvio Jermann is once again mixed. Some of the wines are outstanding, but a number of bottlings, the Pinot Grigio and Pinot Bianco in particular, are far off the pace of the region’s leading producers. In addition to the wines below, I also had a chance to taste Jermann’s 1999 Vintage Tunina, Dreams and Capo Martino. The wines have aged quite well, most notably the Capo Martino, which showed terrific freshness and minerality. Readers should be aware that Jermann is owned by my wife’s uncle. I have always viewed education as an important component of wine criticism. An article on Friuli without these wines would have been incomplete and ultimately the consumer would have been poorer for their exclusion. For those reasons I have chosen to include the wines in this report. Neither my wife nor I have any financial or other interest, direct or indirect, in this property.Importer: Empson, USA, Alexandria, VA; tel. (703) 684-0900
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