Colli Orientali del Friuli Bianco Illivio 2001

Livio Felluga (Italy)

Pinot Bianco
White Wine	Score: ✧✧✧✧

The wine shows a brilliant golden yellow color and nuances of straw yellow, very transparent. The nose reveals intense, clean, pleasing and refined aromas which start with hints of toasted wood, banana and plum followed by aromas of hawthorn, honey, mineral, banana, apple, ripe peach and grapefruit. In the mouth has good correspondence to the nose, a crisp attack and pleasing smoothness, however balanced by alcohol, good body, intense flavors. The finish is persistent with flavors of apple, plum and banana. Illivio ages in barrique for about 10 months followed by at least 16 months of aging in bottle.
Alcohol: 14%
Roasted fish, Roasted white meat, Stewed fish
Suggested glass	12 °C (53 °F)
(Bodied and Mature White Wines)
Issue 29, April 2005