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Radikon is a small estate above Oslavia, on the Italian-Slovenian border in the Collio Goriziano hills of Friuli Venezia Giulia. Stanko Radikon helped invent the modern Italian way of making white wine on its skins here, in 1995. His son Sasa now runs the estate: about 27 acres of vines on Oslavia's ponca soil, and a cellar that adds no sulphur. The wines carry the Venezia Giulia IGT label. The main range spends three years in old wooden barrels, then at least a year in bottle.
Friuli Venezia Giulia
Radikon family records go back to 1861 in this corner of the Collio Goriziano. The estate sits at Localita Tre Buchi, a single hill road in Oslavia, above Gorizia, where Italian and Slovenian vines run into each other across the border. Stanko Radikon bottled his first commercial vintage of Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon, Ribolla Gialla and Tocai in 1980. By the late eighties the aim was clear: low yields, hand-picked grapes, almost nothing added in the cellar.
The break came in 1995. Stanko began fermenting Ribolla Gialla on its skins for weeks at a time, the way a red is made. The colour, texture and savour of that wine reset what skin-contact whites could be in Italy. By 2002 every Radikon white spent around three months on its skins and was bottled with no added sulphur. The long soak sat outside Collio DOC rules, so the estate stepped out of the DOC. The labels have carried the Venezia Giulia IGT ever since.
The vineyards cover about 27 acres of ponca, the soft sandstone and marl that streaks Oslavia's slopes. The main range ages for three years in old wooden barrels, then at least a year in bottle. It includes Ribolla, Oslavje (a Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon and Chardonnay blend on the label since 1992), Jakot, Merlot and Pignoli. Jakot is Friulano under another name, a quiet point about the Tocai naming dispute.
The S Line of Slatnik, Sivi and RS spends less time on the skins and gives an easy way into the house style. Ribolla 3781 and Modri sit at the top of the cellar as long-aged collection bottlings.
Stanko died in September 2016. His son Sasa, who had created the S Line in 2009, took over with the philosophy intact. The wines still ferment on their own, with no sulphites and very long ageing, on the same ponca and with the same hands. In 2023 his daughter Ivana joined the cellar and launched the Pop Line, a fresh-style Bianco and Rosso that spend only a few days on the skins in steel tanks. Four guest rooms with a view across the vines complete the estate above Oslavia.
Plate I · FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA
Wine area
Friuli's most decorated white-wine zone, hugging the Slovenian border above Gorizia.
Winery
Gorizia · Collio Goriziano
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Four guest rooms with a view across the Oslavia vines, on the Italian-Slovenian border in Friuli's Collio Goriziano. Rooms are part of the working winery, not a separate hotel; bookings are handled directly with the family.
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Est. 1979 
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