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Jermann
Silvio Jermann named one west-facing plot Lons and planted Pinot Nero on it, above the Judrio in Friuli. Red cherry, violet, then a soft earthy turn. From £47, and worth an hour in a decanter.
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Drawn from what drinkers report on Vivino, 170 ratings averaging 4.3 out of 5, and from the estate's own account of the Lons plot. Red fruit comes first, then an earthy turn of leather and mushroom, with the barrel showing only lightly.
Cherry and strawberry come first, with the violet that gave the wine half its name. Behind the fruit sits a savoury note of leather and damp mushroom. The oak barrel shows only lightly.
Violet
Blackberry
Cherry
Plum
Strawberry
Forest Floor
Leather
Oak
LiquoriceMedium-bodied and soft rather than firm. Blackberry and plum sit under the red fruit, the acidity stays fresh without turning sharp, and the tannin is fine. The shop that sells it asks for an hour in a decanter rather than more years in the bottle.
Clean and moderate in length, with the earthy, leathery side of the wine lasting longer than the fruit.
This is the wine Silvio Jermann had wanted to make for years, from one plot he bought, named Lons and kept apart from everything else. Drinkers rate it 4.3 out of 5 across 170 ratings on Vivino. Good from now to about 2035.
Only the 2020 is on sale here, at £47.00 and at £51.00 on offer. Silvio Jermann recorded 3,469 bottles plus 200 magnums for the 2015 vintage, so any year of Lonsblau is a small run that sells out quietly.
Four scores out of ten. It rates highest with food and for an occasion, holds up well for the cellar, and lands mid-table on value against other reds at £47.
Light tannin and fresh acidity make this an easy red to put on a table, from mushroom risotto to roast pork.
A single-plot wine from a famous Friuli estate, made in the low thousands of bottles, at around £50.
The shop selling it puts its life at ten to fifteen years from the vintage. It spends its early life in oak.
At £47 it costs what a decent village Burgundy costs. The label carries a broad regional name, not a famous one.
The style is gentle and easy to like. But few people know Friuli for Pinot Nero, and £47 is a lot to spend finding out.
At £47 a bottle this is not a wine to open on a weeknight.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Venezia Giulia denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
Collio started picking on 2 September in 2020, later than the recent run of harvests, and the zone escaped the spring frost that hit Veneto. Growers there called the fruit perfect.
Collio picked late in 2020, from 2 September, and escaped the spring frost that hit Veneto. Growers in the zone called the fruit perfect that year.
Collio picked late in 2020, from 2 September, and escaped the spring frost that hit Veneto. Growers in the zone called the fruit perfect that year.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Silvio Jermann had wanted to make a Pinot Nero selection for years. The chance came with a newly bought west-facing vineyard on the left bank of the Judrio, already ten years planted, which he named Lons. Like every Jermann wine it is sealed with a screw cap.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Venezia Giulia is in the IGT tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Venezia Giulia falls within Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Winery
Dolegna del Collio
Wine area
Made at Jermann, Dolegna del Collio. Directions
Jermann set aside a newly bought vineyard on the left bank of the Judrio, about the size of four football pitches, just for this wine. The volume is fixed and tiny.
Silvio Jermann recorded 3,469 bottles of 0.75 litre plus 200 magnums for the 2015. A run that small spreads the estate's costs across very few bottles.
Both shops say the wine ages in small French oak barrels. Barrels and the cellar space to hold them tie up money for years before a single bottle can be sold.
The bottle says Venezia Giulia IGT, not Collio or a name a UK buyer would recognise. That caps what people will pay next to a Burgundy at the same £47.
Hedonism's February 2026 duty table puts a 13.5% wine at £3.10 a bottle, and VAT takes a fifth of the shelf price. Roughly £11 of the £47 is tax before the wine is counted.
Dishes that go with this wine
The shop selling it points at meat, pork and mature cheese. Vivino's matches are beef, veal, poultry and game. Both land in the same place: savoury food with fat to cut, and nothing too hot or too sweet.
Pinot Nero carries light, fine tannin, so it does not fight slow-cooked beef the way a big red does. The meat's fat softens what grip there is. The wine's acidity keeps a long-braised dish from feeling heavy.
Try with: Brasato al Barolo · Ossobuco alla Milanese · Bollito dei Pastori · Vitello Tonnato · More pairings →
Roast pork and fresh sausage leave fat on the palate, and this wine's fresh acidity cuts straight through it. Its red fruit also sits well with crackling and with the herbs and fennel that go into porchetta.
Try with: Porchetta · Porceddu · Pampanella · Lucanica · More pairings →
Drinkers on Vivino keep finding mushroom and leather in this wine. Those are the same earthy smells that come off a porcini risotto or shaved truffle. Glass and plate echo each other instead of competing.
Try with: Porcini mushroom risotto · Truffle risotto · Tagliatelle al tartufo di Acqualagna · Tajarin al Tartufo · More pairings →
Xtrawine points this wine straight at mature cheese. Salt in an aged cheese makes a wine taste fruitier, and there is not enough tannin here to turn bitter against it, which is what happens with a heavier red.
Try with: Frico · Fonduta · Caciocavallo farcito · Pecorino sardo e pan carasau · More pairings →
Vivino lists beef, veal, poultry and game as matches. Game is lean and strongly flavoured. A medium-bodied red with earthy notes meets it without burying it, which a full-bodied wine would.
Try with: Venison Stew · Roast Pheasant · Roast Duck · Duck breast · More pairings →
Chilli heat makes the alcohol in a red taste hot and hollows out its fruit. A sugary sauce makes a dry wine taste sour. This is a delicate wine at £47, so both effects hit it harder than a cheap heavy red.
Skip with: Pizza Diavola · Chicken madras · Sweet and sour pork · Szechuan beef · Pairing guide →
Xtrawine puts the wine's life at ten to fifteen years from the vintage, which takes the 2020 to about 2035. It asks for an hour in a decanter and 16 to 18 degrees in the glass.
Peak around 2028. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
The shop selling it puts its life at ten to fifteen years from the vintage. It spends its early life in oak.
£47.00 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighDrawn from what drinkers consistently report on Vivino and Wine-Searcher, summarised in our own words. A crowd read across many tasters, not a single critic.
Confidence · MediumFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumIt is made entirely from Pinot Nero. The second half of the name, Blau, is the German word for blue. It nods both to Blauburgunder, the German name for the grape, and to the blue violets Silvio Jermann was hunting on the hill the day he chose the site.
From one west-facing plot on the left bank of the Judrio river, at Dolegna del Collio in Friuli. Jermann bought the vineyard, roughly the size of four football pitches, when it was already ten years planted, and named it Lons.
Cherry and strawberry with violet on top, then a soft earthy turn of leather and mushroom and a light touch of oak. Drinkers rate it 4.3 out of 5 across 170 ratings on Vivino.
Roast and braised meat, pork and hard mountain cheese. Vivino's own matches for the wine are beef, veal, poultry and game, and the shop selling it recommends meat, pork and mature cheese.
Xtrawine puts its life at ten to fifteen years from the vintage, so the 2020 should hold to about 2035. Give it an hour in a decanter and serve it at 16 to 18 degrees.
From £47.00 a bottle. Two shops list the 2020: one at £47.00 and one at £51.00 on offer, down from £57.95.
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