Wine Globe Project: 2025 Ribolla Gialla

Ravensworth Wine Globe Project
Over three vintages we tested out these 220l wine globes. Using various estate grown varieties, on and off skins, for one year on lees. They are released as this project in 2026
Collection: Estate
Ribolla Gialla
Vintage: 2025
GI: Canberra District
Vineyard source: Estate
Harvest date: Late March
Processing: On skins for three weeks, pressed and returned topped to globe for another 6 months
Élevage: 1 years
Vessels: Wine Globe
Vintage conditions: 2025
Perfect in a word, early
Bottling date: May 2026
Production: 25 dozen
Cellaring: 5 years plus
Drink with: Really good with sashimi/sushi.

Here’s the sophist in me, so strap in. And I am sure the Martins of Ravensworth will probably discuss and go ‘yeah, maybe’. If you have a first crop of a distinct variety, and one that leads the world in extended skin maceration, and the doyens do minimum six months on skins, and the looooong time in barrel after, and looooooong time in bottle after, and you have 15-plus skew of cuvees as Ravensworth do, that can be releases willynilly, why not go the full potential and experiment of where the heartland style of the variety goes? Go harder, go longer! Dunno. I will have a chat with Bryan and Louis soon, for sure. No doubt. This feels a bit shortchanged. But fine.

It’s youthful as an expression, a dash of gin and tonic, a squish of jalapeno, dill pickle going on, slosh of lime and green pear. In that, a touch of the greenery descends and delivers a mainstay of personality, peppery, a bit bitter, and for the benchmarks of the variety on skins (six months in Friuili et al) maybe shortchanging the potential in squeaky over full, chalky pucker. A nice drinking experience, yes, just maybe wanting to see the further potential here. “nice”.



Rated : 90 Points
Tasted : AUG26
Alcohol : 12.5%
Price : $45
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2026 - 2029