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Miani
A single-vineyard Sauvignon from Enzo Pontoni, who makes about 8,000 bottles a year in Buttrio. Fermented in French oak: green pepper, sage, melon and a salty, stony edge. The 2023 magnum lists at £340 in the UK.
An Italian reviewer picks out green pepper, sage and tomato leaf over melon and peach, with a salty, stony edge from Buttrio's marl hills. Vivino drinkers rate Saurint 4.4 across 347 ratings.
Green pepper, sage and tomato leaf lead, the grassy side of Sauvignon one Italian reviewer picks out in Saurint. Ripe melon, peach and grapefruit sit underneath. Vivino drinkers most often log tree fruit next to a stony, mineral streak.
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HoneyFermented and aged in French oak for about a year, it is rich rather than sharp: concentrated and soft-textured, with a citrus vein running through it. An Italian reviewer describes an elegant salty edge. That fits the ponca, the marl and sandstone under Miani's hillside vines.
Long and savoury. It closes on wet stones and the honeyed note Vivino tasters often log.
Saurint comes from Enzo Pontoni's best Sauvignon parcels, per US merchant Leon & Son, and drinkers back it: 4.4 on Vivino across 347 ratings. Drink the 2023 magnum from 2025 to about 2033.
DoctorWine says Miani releases vanish from the few shops that get them within days. The UK has one live listing: the 2023 magnum at Hedonism Wines for £340. The same shop lists the 75cl at £140.
This is a food wine and an occasion wine before it is an everyday buy. The whole estate makes about 8,000 bottles a year, and the magnum costs £340.
A cult Friuli white in large format: Vivino puts the 2016 in the top 2% of wines worldwide and DoctorWine says releases sell through in days.
Salt, acidity and aroma with real body: it cuts frico and fried fish and holds up to roast chicken. Merchant pages on both sides of the Atlantic agree on that set.
Oak-fermented single-vineyard white from tiny yields; Vivino's top-rated Saurint vintages are 7 to 13 years old, and magnums age slower still.
£340 a magnum (£170 per 75cl equivalent) buys scarcity and cult standing, not everyday value.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Friuli Colli Orientali denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
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Vinous called Friuli's 2023 'great wine in the face of great sacrifice': an extremely trying season that only strict growers mastered. Tasting the young wines, Eric Guido called Miani's 2023 Sauvignon Blanc 'a huge success'.
Vinous called Friuli's 2023 an extremely trying season, titling its report 'great wine in the face of great sacrifice'. Eric Guido still singled out Miani's young 2023 Sauvignon Blanc as 'a huge success'.
Vinous called Friuli's 2023 an extremely trying season, titling its report 'great wine in the face of great sacrifice'. Eric Guido still singled out Miani's young 2023 Sauvignon Blanc as 'a huge success'.
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.
The DOC covers the hills of Udine province and caps crops at 11 tonnes of grapes per hectare. Miani goes far below the cap: one or two bunches per vine, about 8,000 bottles a year in total.
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.
Friuli Colli Orientali is in the DOC tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Friuli Colli Orientali falls within Friuli Venezia Giulia , covering Udine.
US importer Grand Cru Selections reports yields near 10 hectolitres per hectare, against the 11 tonnes of grapes the DOC allows. One or two bunches per vine leaves very little wine to sell.
DoctorWine records roughly 8,000 bottles a year across every Miani label, gone within days of release. Scarcity sets the price, not marketing: Miani has no website.
An Italian review of Saurint describes fermentation in French oak and about 12 months in barrique. Barrels come from Burgundy and Bordeaux coopers: a real per-bottle cost at this scale.
Hedonism lists the 2023 magnum at £340 while two 75cl bottles cost £280 there. The £60 premium is the price of a large format bottled in small numbers.
Hedonism's February 2026 duty table shows £3.10 per 75cl at 13.5% alcohol, about £6.20 on a magnum, and VAT inside the £340 price is about £56.67.
Dishes that complement this wine
Miani's home region shows the way: frico, cured ham, creamed salt cod. The salty edge and green-herb aromas do the cutting, and the oak-built body stands up to roast chicken.
Frico is melted Montasio cheese and potato, and the wine's acidity and salty edge slice straight through it. This is a pairing from Miani's home hills. The same cut works on any crisp batter.
Try with: Frico · Gnocco fritto · Fish and Chips · More pairings →
Saurint's sage, tomato-leaf and green-pepper aromas run straight into herby fish cookery. The citrus vein an Italian reviewer describes keeps seafood bright rather than buried.
Try with: Pesce spada alla Siciliana · Brodetto alla giuliese · herb-roasted sea bass · More pairings →
Oak fermentation gives Saurint the weight of a light red without the tannin. Roast white meats top the pairing list at US merchant Leon & Son, and Italian merchant Galli Enoteca lists white meat too.
Try with: Roast chicken · roast turkey · pork loin with sage · More pairings →
The wine's own melon and peach echo the classic ham-and-melon plate. Its salty edge meets San Daniele ham, made a few hills west of Buttrio, salt for salt.
Try with: Prosciutto e melone · Baccala Mantecato · aged Montasio · More pairings →
Sauvignon's tomato-leaf note meets the fruit it hints at, and the wine's acidity matches the sauce's. Italian reviewer Simon Italian Food ends his Saurint note with exactly this: a good plate of spaghetti al pomodoro.
Try with: Spaghetti al pomodoro · Spaghetti alla chitarra · Pesce spada alla Siciliana · More pairings →
Chilli heat amplifies alcohol and strips out the herbal detail that makes Saurint worth £340 a magnum. Keep it away from hot curries and hot-sauce dishes: a gently sweet Italian white such as Moscato d'Asti handles heat far better.
Skip with: Vindaloo · Goan fish curry · Fish Tacos · Sichuan hot pot · Pairing guide →
About 8,000 bottles a year, no website, and releases that DoctorWine says are gone within days. Vivino places the 2016 Saurint in the top 2% of all wines in the world.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Oak-fermented single-vineyard white from tiny yields; Vivino's top-rated Saurint vintages are 7 to 13 years old, and magnums age slower still.
£340.00 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 · MediumA single-vineyard Sauvignon Blanc from Miani in Buttrio, in the Friuli Colli Orientali DOC. Enzo Pontoni ferments it in French oak, and it is one of Italy's rarest and most chased white wines.
Miani makes about 8,000 bottles a year across all its wines, and Enzo Pontoni prunes each vine back to one or two bunches. The Italian guide DoctorWine says each release sells out within days.
Expect green pepper, sage, melon and peach, with a salty, stony edge and a rich feel from oak fermentation. Vivino drinkers score it 4.4 from 347 ratings and often log peach, minerals and honey.
Enzo Pontoni, a farmer in Buttrio who took over his family's vines and named the winery after his mother's maiden name. He works the vineyards himself and has never built a website.
The magnum holds two bottles' worth and ages more slowly, which suits a wine built to run past 2030. Hedonism Wines lists the 2023 magnum at £340, about £60 more than two standard bottles.
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