La Villana (Joy Kull) Vino Bianco "Fuoriluogo" 2024

La Villana (Joy Kull) Vino Bianco "Fuoriluogo" 2024Joy Kull is located in the northern Lazio region of Italy around Lake Balsena about 10 KM from Tuscany. She focuses on cultivating indigenous varieties, low intervention farming, fermenting with native yeasts, and zero added sulfur. 'Fuori Luogo' translates to out of place, and since the Viognier, Vermentino, and Moscato are not indigenous to this area of Lazio or Joys home vineyards, the name seemed fitting. The vineyard, located in Farnese, was

Cédric makes this from the fruit of two pear trees

but in 2013 brothers Jean Daniel and Thomas Ozil

full of energy and character and not a mouse tail in sight

The juice receives battonage weekly through out the first month

and making their own wine seeme like a natural extension of farming their own radicchio and other greens that were hard to find locally

a hint of leather

The bubbles are pretty mild

she works with three local farmers

This is bright

Would pair beautifully with butternut squash ravioli

this is a village-level dry Riesling only in name

But throughout all of my encounters with Filipa’s wines