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Pinot Grigio Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2019
Bright yellow-green, nutty pear fruit on the nose, some herbs, orange zest and a pleasantly light wood spice. Lots of substance on the palate and complex on the palate. A balanced and sophisticated food companion. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Pinot Grigio
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 8 months new/used barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: Barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 19,85 g/l
- Total Acidity: 4,90 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 0,96 g/l
- Sulfite: 82 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,61
- Closure: Natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2025+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02090419 · 0,75 l · 26,53 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately
Ribolla Gialla Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2018
Attractive Ribolla Gialla in light golden yellow and with a charming scent of ripe fruit. On the palate it shows personality and character, complex, multi-layered, very fruity and long. SUPERIORE.DE
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The 2016 vintage received the following awards:- Grape Variety: 100% Ribolla Gialla
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 8 months new/used barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 20,85 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,65 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 0,95 g/l
- Sulfite: 99 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,50
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2027+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02090518 · 0,75 l · 31,99 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping6 units available
Friulano Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2019
Enchanting Friulano with beautiful roasted aromas and a pleasant scent of biscuit, orange and honey. On the palate powerful, opulent, with ripe tropical fruit and very good acidity structure, which gives the wine a vibrant finesse despite all its complexity. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Friulano
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 8 months new/used barrique
- Development: barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 20,85 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,48 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 0,89 g/l
- Sulfite: 82 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,52
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2027+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02090619 · 0,75 l · 35,87 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping< 24 units available
Ribolla Gialla Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2019
Attractive Ribolla Gialla in light golden yellow and with a charming scent of ripe fruit. The palate shows personality and character, complex, multi-layered, very fruity and long. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Ribolla Gialla
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 8 months new/used barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 21,65 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,71 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 1,05 g/l
- Sulfite: 89 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,42
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2028+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02090519 · 0,75 l · 37,20 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately
Chardonnay Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2019
Finely nuanced Chardonnay from the barrique, very attractive bouquet with notes of caramel and fresh yellow apple. Complex and very powerful on the palate, lingers for minutes. With a fine herbal spiciness and a subtle nutty underlay on the finish. SUPERIORE.DE
"Shiny yellow-green. Opens on the nose with appealing floral notes of chamomile, plus pineapple and yellow apple. Good fullness on the palate, creamy and well woven, spreads powerfully, discreet caramel tone on the final." Falstaff
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Chardonnay
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 8 months new/used barrique
- Development: barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 21,65 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,35 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 1,76 g/l
- Sulfite: 92 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,52
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2029+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02090119 · 0,75 l · 39,87 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping5 units available
Verduzzo Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2013 semisecco
Beautiful Verduzzo Friulano wrapped in shiny old gold and with delightful aromas from brittle to almonds, from apricot jam to caramel. The palate is also pampered by fine sweet aromas and a taste of integrity and persistence balanced by fresh acidity. SUPERIORE.DE
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Verduzzo Friulano
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 14 months 70/30 new/used barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 31,70 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,40 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 16,10 g/l
- Sulfite: 127 mg/l
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2024
- Food Recommendations: foie gras
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02090313 · 0,5 l · 65,98 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping< 24 units available
Picolit Colli Orientali del Friuli DOCG 2015 dolce
Shiny old gold, smells immensely diverse of apricots and caramel, of brittle, honey and almonds. Delicately sweet and lovely, the flavour is balanced by a fresh acidity, with integrity and persistence. SUPERIORE.DE
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The 2014 vintage received the following awards:- Grape Variety: 100% Picolit
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 14 months 70/30 new/used barrique
- Development: barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 12,50 % vol
- Closure: natural corks
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2025+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02090715 · 0,5 l · 91,80 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping4 units available
“Zitelle Pesarin” Friulano Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2018
As always, Paolo Meroi has vinified a great Friulano with classic proportions, of which one can only get hold of a bottle with difficulty due to a total production of just 1,000 bottles. As always from a microsite, this white convinces with its perfectly knit balance of fine peach notes, pear, green melon and a little honey, its vibrant acid wire and a remarkable freshness and length. SUPERIORE.DE
"Bright, light straw yellow. Opens with fine wood notes, some light caramel, then of fresh yellow apple, rich herbal spice in the background. Lush and rich on the palate, very good concentration, fine ripe fruit, but still noticeable wood overhang on the back end, needs further ripening." Falstaff
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Friulano
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 10 months oak barrels/new barrique
- Development: partly barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,00 % vol
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2028+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02091918 · 0,75 l · 66,53 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately
Limitation of 2 articles per customer“Vigna Dominin” Chardonnay Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2018
Attractive Chardonnay wrapped in golden yellow, entices with fine apricot scent and memories of brittle and almonds. On the palate, a rich fruit and flavours of caramel, well cushioned by the fresh acidity. An excellent, integral and persistent classic with cult status. SUPERIORE.DE
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The 2016 vintage received the following awards:- Grape Variety: 100% Chardonnay
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 24 months used barrique
- Development: barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 13,00 % vol
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 10-12 °C
- Storage Potential: 2028+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02091118 · 0,75 l · 66,53 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately
Limitation of 2 articles per customer“Vigna Dominin” Merlot Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2013
Dark ruby garnet, spicy blackberry bouquet with herbal and delicate roasted aromas, underlaid with a fine noble wood note. On the palate it is broad, deep and complex in texture, with present, well integrated tannins, well balanced and of excellent length. SUPERIORE.DE
"The 2013 Friuli Colli Orientali Merlot Vigna Dominin presents a slightly shy and closed expression of this popular French grape. The cool climate of northeast Italy helps to develop color saturation and sharpness. Instead of generous cherry and opulent fruit, this wine veers toward plummy notes with black spice, tar and tobacco instead. One minor hesitation regards the alcohol: it is recorded at 15%, and you do feel it. This wine is fermented in conical oak tanks and sees four weeks of skin maceration. It is aged in barrique for two years before going into bottle for another ten months. Those long maceration times explain the slow-moving inner power you get here." Robert Parker
"Like the Refosco, the 2013 Merlot Vigna Dominin shows what appears to be a desire to maintain more freshness in the wines. Vibrant and medium in body, the 2013 is a model of understated finesse. Even so, there is no shortage of intensity, its just that the wine is better balanced than in the past, with more freshness and redder tonalities to the fruit, and less oak influence. I would wait to drink the 2013 for at least a few years in order to allow the wine to develop more aromatic complexity. This is a lovely showing." VINOUS
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Merlot
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 24 months new barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 15,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 31,00 g/l
- Total Acidity: 4,60 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 0,40 g/l
- Sulfite: 53 mg/l
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2032+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02092313 · 0,75 l · 92,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping11 units available
“Vigna Dominin” Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2013
Great wine that can boast enormous depth and intensity. Velvety and rich, the aromas recall dried berries, roasted oak and fine chocolate, on the palate of breathtaking power and fullness, the pure tension and beauty of Refosco. SUPERIORE.DE
"As well as the forest-berry aromas, there’s a hint of herb liqueur on the nose. The depth is certainly impressive and the acidity of this grape seems nicely balanced by some gentle tannins that time has polished. Good length." James Suckling
"The 2013 Refosco Vigna Dominin is a beautiful wine. Meroi has succeeded in taming most of the rusticity out of this notoriously rustic Friulian grape. In exchange, though, the wine is a bit less varietally expressive than it has been in the past. Still, taken on its own terms, the 2013 is a gorgeous Friulian red to drink over the next decade, give or take. Stylistically, the 2013 is a bit less pushed and concentrated than other recent editions. Sweet red cherry, French oak, spice and wild flowers are nicely pushed forward in this succulent, expressive red from Friuli's Colli Oriental district." Antonio Galloni
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Refosco
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 24 months new barrique
- Development: barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 30,55 g/l
- Total Acidity: 4,85 g/l
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2032+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02092813 · 0,75 l · 92,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping< 24 units available
“Vigna Dominin” Merlot Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2015
Dark ruby, spicy blackberry bouquet with herbal and delicate toasted aromas, underpinned with a fine note of noble wood. On the palate, expansive, deep and of complex texture, present, well-integrated tannins, well-balanced and of excellent length. SUPERIORE.DE
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The 2013 vintage received the following awards:- Grape Variety: 100% Merlot
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 24 months new barrique
- Development: barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 30,85 g/l
- Total Acidity: 4,65 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 0,50 g/l
- Sulfite: 55 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,48
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2034+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02092315 · 0,75 l · 92,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately
Limitation of 2 articles per customer“Vigna Dominin” Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2016
Great wine that boasts enormous depth and intensity. Velvety and rich, the aromas are reminiscent of dried berries, toasted oak and fine chocolate, with breathtaking power and fullness on the palate, the pure tension and beauty of Refosco. SUPERIORE.DE
"Deep dark opaque garnet purple. Shows rich and precise notes of wild berries, blackberries, elderberries, light mint and precious wood on the nose, complex. Polished and tightly meshed on the palate, spreads out in a lush and decisive way, cool fruit with precise progression, supported by excellent use of wood, lingers long." Falstaff
"This is really nicely done, showing black fruit, such as blackberry, as well as dark chocolate and spice. It’s medium-to full-bodied with firm tannins and a flavorful finish. Some smoky oak at the end." James Suckling
"The 2016 Refosco Vigna Dominin is airy and dusty in character, as peppery florals and hints of licorice give way to dried black cherries. Its silky textures usher in a potent mix of red and black fruit with savory penetrating spice and violet-tinged florals that form toward the close. It leaves the palate with a coating of sweet tannins and lingering minerals, as hints of spiced tangerine and pomegranate fade. This is a powerful effort with the depth to balance. I’m looking forward to retasting it with a few years of maturity." Vinous
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Refosco
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 24 months new barrique
- Development: barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 15,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 31,55 g/l
- Total Acidity: 5,15 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 0,75 g/l
- Sulfite: 69 mg/l
- ph-Value: 3,34
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2035+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02092816 · 0,75 l · 92,00 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping< 24 units available
“Vigna Dominin” Merlot Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2013 · MAGNUM in Gift Box
Dark ruby garnet, spicy blackberry bouquet with herbal and delicate roasted aromas, underlaid with a fine noble wood note. On the palate it is broad, deep and complex in texture, with present, well integrated tannins, well balanced and of excellent length. SUPERIORE.DE
"The 2013 Friuli Colli Orientali Merlot Vigna Dominin presents a slightly shy and closed expression of this popular French grape. The cool climate of northeast Italy helps to develop color saturation and sharpness. Instead of generous cherry and opulent fruit, this wine veers toward plummy notes with black spice, tar and tobacco instead. One minor hesitation regards the alcohol: it is recorded at 15%, and you do feel it. This wine is fermented in conical oak tanks and sees four weeks of skin maceration. It is aged in barrique for two years before going into bottle for another ten months. Those long maceration times explain the slow-moving inner power you get here." Robert Parker
"Like the Refosco, the 2013 Merlot Vigna Dominin shows what appears to be a desire to maintain more freshness in the wines. Vibrant and medium in body, the 2013 is a model of understated finesse. Even so, there is no shortage of intensity, its just that the wine is better balanced than in the past, with more freshness and redder tonalities to the fruit, and less oak influence. I would wait to drink the 2013 for at least a few years in order to allow the wine to develop more aromatic complexity. This is a lovely showing." VINOUS
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Merlot
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 24 months new barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 15,00 % vol
- Total Extract: 31,00 g/l
- Total Acidity: 4,60 g/l
- Residual Sugar: 0,40 g/l
- Sulfite: 53 mg/l
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2034+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02092713 · 1,5 l · 99,33 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping2 units available
“Vigna Dominin” Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2013 · MAGNUM in Gift Box
Great wine that can boast enormous depth and intensity. Velvety and rich, the aromas recall dried berries, roasted oak and fine chocolate, on the palate of breathtaking power and fullness, the pure tension and beauty of Refosco. SUPERIORE.DE
"As well as the forest-berry aromas, there’s a hint of herb liqueur on the nose. The depth is certainly impressive and the acidity of this grape seems nicely balanced by some gentle tannins that time has polished. Good length." James Suckling
"The 2013 Refosco Vigna Dominin is a beautiful wine. Meroi has succeeded in taming most of the rusticity out of this notoriously rustic Friulian grape. In exchange, though, the wine is a bit less varietally expressive than it has been in the past. Still, taken on its own terms, the 2013 is a gorgeous Friulian red to drink over the next decade, give or take. Stylistically, the 2013 is a bit less pushed and concentrated than other recent editions. Sweet red cherry, French oak, spice and wild flowers are nicely pushed forward in this succulent, expressive red from Friuli's Colli Oriental district." Antonio Galloni
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Refosco
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 24 months new barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Development: barrique
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 30,55 g/l
- Total Acidity: 4,85 g/l
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2034+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02092913 · 1,5 l · 99,33 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping2 units available
“Vigna Dominin” Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso Friuli Colli Orientali DOC 2013 · 6 Bottles in OWC
Great wine that can boast enormous depth and intensity. Velvety and rich, the aromas recall dried berries, roasted oak and fine chocolate, on the palate of breathtaking power and fullness, the pure tension and beauty of Refosco. SUPERIORE.DE
"As well as the forest-berry aromas, there’s a hint of herb liqueur on the nose. The depth is certainly impressive and the acidity of this grape seems nicely balanced by some gentle tannins that time has polished. Good length." James Suckling
"The 2013 Refosco Vigna Dominin is a beautiful wine. Meroi has succeeded in taming most of the rusticity out of this notoriously rustic Friulian grape. In exchange, though, the wine is a bit less varietally expressive than it has been in the past. Still, taken on its own terms, the 2013 is a gorgeous Friulian red to drink over the next decade, give or take. Stylistically, the 2013 is a bit less pushed and concentrated than other recent editions. Sweet red cherry, French oak, spice and wild flowers are nicely pushed forward in this succulent, expressive red from Friuli's Colli Oriental district." Antonio Galloni
read more- Grape Variety: 100% Refosco
- Cultivation: close to nature
- Expansion: 24 months new barrique
- Development: barrique
- Vegan Clearing: yes
- Filtration: yes
- Alcohol Content: 14,50 % vol
- Total Extract: 30,55 g/l
- Total Acidity: 4,85 g/l
- Closure: natural cork
- Serving Temperature: 18-20 °C
- Storage Potential: 2032+
- Allergens: contains sulphites
stored air-conditioned02093013 · 4,5 l · 94,22 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shipping1 unit available

The Lombard tribe recognised the unique location of the present-day wine village of Buttrio around two thousand years ago. It is therefore understandable that the best and most famous wineries in Friuli are to be found in the vicinity - at the beginning of the Colli Orientali del Friuli - and between picturesque hills. The Davino Meroi Winery is a small but bright star. The fortunes of the family business, named after his father, are today directed with great zeal by Paolo Meroi. Already in earlier years grandfather Domenico had acquired a large experience treasure in things viticulture. Paolo can rely on his friend Enzo Pontoni, manager of the nearby Miani winery, known for its high quality wines, for his daily work in the vineyard and cellar. But although his good wines undoubtedly bear the signature of his teacher, Paolo Meroi has developed a personal style for his white and red wines, which are full of character and only sold in small quantities. Davino Meroi's still affordable bottlings are now high on the regional leaderboards.
In the vineyards cultivated by the young oenologist Mirko Degan, the landowner attaches great importance to a late harvest of very ripe grapes and deliberately keeps the yields per vine extremely low. This gives the wines their great structure and complexity. The juicy and concentrated grapes are expertly processed in the cellar. The must is fermented in barriques. The white wines also undergo malolactic fermentation. Paolo is considered to be a proven expert in the field of the maturation of fine wines. After all, he regularly shared his oenological findings with his friend Enzo for many years, initially swimming against the current in winemaking. The exciting, harmonious and always fragrant wines of the Davino Meroi Winery, which is still little known but admired by many competitors, are considered highly authentic by connoisseurs. However, according to the impression of some experienced observers, they are more recommendable to advanced connoisseurs than to inexperienced wine lovers.
The Trattoria Al Parco, located in the middle of a park and around one hundred years old, is also part of Paolo Meroi's pleasure. The tavern, popular for its traditional Friulian cuisine, is run by the owner together with his wife Francesca. It is particularly known for grilled meat and game dishes. There has always been wine of its own to enjoy. During a guided tour in the Trattoria Al Parco, guests can also see Paolo's rarities. SUPERIORE.DE
"Meroi is one of the hottest and most ambitious wineries in Friuli. The owner Paolo Meroi is ambitious and full of energy. It doesn't hurt him at all to take the advice of his close friend Enzo Pontoni from the Miani winery in the vineyard and cellar."Robert Parker
Facts
- Year of foundation: 1981
- Owner: Paolo Meroi
- Oenologists: Paolo Meroi and Mirko Degan
- Annual production: approx. 30,000 bottles
- Vineyard: approx. 13 hectares
- Conventional cultivation