A quick note on my difficult experience with this bottle: It has a plastic cork closure with a soft center that is very slippery when faced with a traditional corkscrew. There is not enough firmness in that plastic material to let the corkscrew do its job. I had all but given up when I finally got the cork out. Once opened, the 2014 Friuli Colli Orientali Pinot Grigio offers citrus and honeydew, mineral. It's not particularly exciting, but it is fresh and easy nonetheless.

Here’s a creamy and thick Pinot Grigio made near Udine in northern Italy that offers dense aromas of melon, stone and passion fruits. There are mineral shadings at the back and the wine boats bright citrus and almond notes in the mouth.——M.L.(8/1/2009)—— 87