Joaquin Fiano di Avellino 'Piante a Lapio' 2013 Languedoc The Riserva is aged for

The Riserva is aged for two years in large Slavonian oak barrels of 50 hectoliter size

and Jean-Paul uses these vines as the basis of his “Le Petit Oursan”—a play on both the word “ours” (“bear” in French) and his family name

for this bottling still impresses

and its dramatic finish echoes the blackberry note and offers plenty of sappy density

(50% new oak

Joaquin Fiano di Avellino 'Piante a Lapio' 2013 Languedoc The Riserva is aged forRaffaeles Piante a Lapio is truly outside of category. Made from 80 to 100 year old Fiano planted in Lapios high altitude volcanic soils, it is fermented spontaneously in casks of chestnut and acacia from local forests, and aged in those same vessels for nearly five years with no topping up. Incredibly, it develops a yeast veil just as a Jura wine would, although Piante a Lapio is marked notably less by veil derived elements than a Jura Savagnin. This