Borgo del Tiglio, Sauvignon Dark Label, 2021
A pharmacist who inherited his family's vineyard at twenty-three and taught himself to make wine by learning French to read Champagnol's foundational texts on viticulture. Nicola Manferrari's unlikely origin story produced one of Italy's most serious white wine estates. Over three decades, Borgo del Tiglio in Collio Goriziano has become a benchmark for complex, age-worthy whites from Friuli-Venezia Giulia—where the Julian Alps meet the Adriatic on hills of marl, sand, and clay that produce some of Italy's finest Sauvignon Blanc. The Dark Label (Etichetta Scura) is the top selection, reserved for Manferrari's most meticulous bottlings. One hundred percent Sauvignon Blanc, manually harvested, delicately pressed, malolactic fermentation, then nine months in 250-liter oak barrels. The result is layered and textural rather than simply aromatic—herbs, citrus, vanilla, and toffee from thoughtful oak integration at a full-bodied fifteen percent alcohol. This is not Loire Sauvignon; this is something entirely its own.
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A pharmacist who inherited his family's vineyard at twenty-three and taught himself to make wine by learning French to read Champagnol's foundational texts on viticulture. Nicola Manferrari's unlikely origin story produced one of Italy's most serious white wine estates. Over three decades, Borgo del Tiglio in Collio Goriziano has become a benchmark for complex, age-worthy whites from Friuli-Venezia Giulia—where the Julian Alps meet the Adriatic on hills of marl, sand, and clay that produce some of Italy's finest Sauvignon Blanc. The Dark Label (Etichetta Scura) is the top selection, reserved for Manferrari's most meticulous bottlings. One hundred percent Sauvignon Blanc, manually harvested, delicately pressed, malolactic fermentation, then nine months in 250-liter oak barrels. The result is layered and textural rather than simply aromatic—herbs, citrus, vanilla, and toffee from thoughtful oak integration at a full-bodied fifteen percent alcohol. This is not Loire Sauvignon; this is something entirely its own.
