OUR REWARDS
LONDON WINE COMPETITION 2024
April 2024
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Our Pinot Bianco and Busart got the silver medal at the prestigious London Wine Competition, with the following notes:
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Pinot Bianco 2021: Elegant and complex wine. Enticing nose with smokiness and creamy character. Flavours of ripe mangos and peaches with hint of spice on palate.
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Busart 2021: On nose the wine shows ripe fruits aromas like white peach & pineapple.The palate is well rounded with concentrated ripe fruit flavours with hint of vanilla and white pepper. Medium complexity with medium finish.
VINI D'ITALIA 2024
November 2023
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Vini d'Italia from Gambero Rosso continues to follow us and rewards our 4 wines.
They write: "...a project that is having exponential success... they presented us a new wine: the Rosso Icarus '20, excellent, but the Pinot Bianco '21 is extraordinary".
The ratings:
Pinot Bianco La Cricca 2021: 2 glasses and finalist for the 3 glasses
Busart La Cricca 2021: 2 glasses
Friulano La Cricca 2021: 2 glasses
Icarus La Cricca 2020: 2 glasses
VINI BUONI D'ITALIA 2024
October 2023
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The prestigious Vini buoni d'Italia, the guide from the Touring Club Italiano dedicated to the best autochtonous wines, attributes our Friulano 2021 the maximum rating of 4 stars and marks it among the wines not to be missed for its pleasantness, correspondence to the grape variety and balance.
SLOW WINE
2023
September 2022
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Slow Wine recognizes our Friulano 2021 as TOP WINE.
GAMBERO ROSSO 2022
November 2021
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Vini d'Italia from Gambero Rosso continues to follow us and rewards all 3 of our wines:
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Busart La Cricca 2020: 2 glasses
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Friulano La Cricca 2020: 2 glasses
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Pinot Bianco La Cricca 2020: 2 glasses
SLOW WINE 2022
November 2021
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"The story of this project has the breath of a great American novel. There is an intuition [...]. There is also the courage to take risks. [...]
[The wines] affirm in the glass the principles of environmental sustainability and the search for obstinate and independent wines.
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Friulano 2020: expresses an intriguing aromatic outfit, with shades of wisteria and roses. It maintains a sapid tension throughout the satisfying sip.
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Busart 2020: in Friulian it means kiss: it is truly enveloping, fleshy and soft.
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Pinot Bianco 2020: airy, floral, delicate.
VINI BUONI D'ITALIA 2022
October 2021
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The prestigious Vini buoni d'Italia, the guide from the Touring Club Italiano dedicated to the best autochtonous wines, attributes our Friulano 2019 the maximum rating of 4 stars and marks it among the wines not to be missed for its pleasantness, correspondence to the grape variety and balance.
WINEHUNTER AWARD 2022
August 2021
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2 of our wines are awarded with the prestigious Winehunter Award :
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Busart La Cricca 2019: Red Award (between 90 and 92.99 points out of 100)
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Pinot Bianco La Cricca 2019: Award Gold (between 93 and 95.99 points out of 100)
DRINK 2021
December 2020
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The Gambero Rosso Berebene 2021 guide places our Friulano La Cricca 2019 among the 1530 excellent Italian wines under 13 euros.
RED SHRIMP 2021
October 2020
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Vini d'Italia from Gambero Rosso continues to follow us and rewards all 3 of our wines:
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Busart La Cricca 2019: 2 glasses
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Friulano La Cricca 2019: 2 glasses
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Pinot Bianco La Cricca 2019: 2 glasses
SLOW WINE 2021
October 2020
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With pleasure our wines have been reviewed in Slow Wine 2021, both in the printed guide and with a video available online:
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Friulano La Cricca 2019: beautiful exuberant bouquet, with citrus notes that you find in the mouth as well: it is direct and vertical and closes very dry
- Pinot Bianco La Cricca 2019: elegant and delicate bouquet, very varietal, with refined and persuasive dynamics in your mouth
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Busart La Cricca 2019: enveloping, smoky, contracted
GAMBERO ROSSO 2020
October 2019
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Vini d'Italia from Gambero Rosso tells about our entry in the guide and awards all our 3 wines:
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Busart La Cricca 2018: 2 glasses
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Friulano La Cricca 2018: 2 glasses
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Pinot Bianco La Cricca 2018: 1 glass
SLOW WINE 2020
October 2019
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Slow Wine tells about our project targeted at sustainability and rewards our wines:
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Friulano La Cricca 2018: clean, vertical, fulfilling
- Pinot Bianco La Cricca 2018: nose with pleasant intensity, scent of wisteria and white melon
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Busart La Cricca 2018: fragrant notes of apricot and soft sip
DINVINGUIDE
June 2019
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Danish magazine Dinvinguide reviews our wines:
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Pinot Bianco La Cricca 2017: Excellent wine - 90 points
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Friulano La Cricca 2017: 88 points
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Busart La Cricca 2017: 86 points
OUR INNOVATIVE IDEA
How we entered the wine business: a website to become a relative of an Italian winemaker.