2005

The Pour|
"How to follow a wine like that? With vitovska of course! Not the Vodopivec that I recently wrote about, but a wine from another, similarly minded producer, Zidarich. It’s not often (except in the Jura) where you serve a white after the red, but this was a conscious decision...The vitovska, a 2005, was a wine of great substance and texture, dry and tangy with a fragrance of roses and apples, and delicious with cheese. Like the Vodopivec, it had a cloudy, cidery haze and a wonderful purity. A great finish to a week of satisfying wines."

- Eric Asimov, The Pour, November 2007

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The 2005 Vitovska represents the purest expression of varietal in its spices, pears, jasmine and flowers. This delicate wine offers notable elegance although the finish is a bit short. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2010. There is an expressive purity to Beniamino Zidarich’s wines that I adore. Zidarich works out of a small cellar carved out of the dramatic rock formations that are the dominant terrain in the Carso mountain range. The vineyards were planted beginning in 1988 with densities ranging from 8,000-10,000 plants per hectare. The wines are fermented with natural yeasts in open-top wood vats where they see contact with the skins for eight to ten days. Aging takes place in mid-size Slavonian oak casks and the wines are bottled without fining or filtration. Zidarich’s wines are cloudy in color, but that is simply the result of wines that have been made with a bare minimum of intervention. Like all whites macerated on the skins, these wines should be served at cellar temperature in large glasses. Even in the weaker 2005 vintage Zidarich has crafted wines that are well worth seeking out.

- Robert Parker, Online Review, October 2007

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