Marco Felluga - Pinot Grigio Collio 'Mongris' 2023 (750ml)
Price: $19.99
Producer | Marco Felluga |
Country | Italy |
Region | Friuli |
Varietal | Pinot Gris, Pinot Grigio |
Vintage | 2023 |
Sku | 202241 |
Size | 750ml |
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Marco Felluga Description
The Felluga family traces its wine industry lineage to the late 1800s, when Ilaria Felluga’s great-great-great-grandfather Michele started a business buying and selling wines in Istria (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Michele’s son Marco added winemaking to the business, growing grapes and making some wine on the family farm just south of Trieste in what is now southwestern Slovenia. After World War I, Marco’s son Giovanni continued the family wine trade, selling Istrian wine in Trieste and in Grado in southern Friuli. He also opened a cellar in Gradisca d’Isonzo in Collio in 1938, but World War II soon broke out, disrupting life for a decade.
After the war, Istria became part of Soviet-dominated Yugoslavia, the family lost their farm there, and Collio became their home. Two of Giovanni’s seven children ultimately established wineries in the vicinity. Marco Felluga, after graduating from the renowned enology school in Conegliano, worked for his elder brother Livio for a while, before Livio left to open his own winery in Rosazzo. Marco stayed in the walled 15th-century fortress town of Gradisca d’Isonzo and founded his eponymous winery in 1956.
Wine Advocate: 88 Points
Here's a well-priced, easy-drinking white to pair with a Greek or Niçoise salad. The Marco Felluga 2023 Collio Pinot Grigio Mongris sees about five months on the lees in stainless steel vats. It shows neutral fruit aromas with hints of white rose and citrus that veer toward preserved lemon or hot-climate Pomelo fruit. It finishes easy and lean.