L’Espresso’s 2025 Italian Wine Guide.
The Best White Wine in Italy is the F osarin 2022 , the excellent Collio Bianco DOC from the Ronco dei Tassi winery in Cormòns , one of the best-known and most appreciated in Friuli Venezia Giulia: this was decreed by the Guida Vini d’Italia de L’Espresso 2025 curated by Luca Gardini , who selected the 1000 most interesting Italian wines to offer a comprehensive overview of the peninsula’s excellences. The Fosarin 2022 won the coveted recognition as an “exemplary blend from a unique vineyard that succeeds in the feat of pricelessly representing the vocation of a territory.”
The award ceremony took place at the Arcimboldi theater in Milan. Enrico Coser , owner of Ronco dei Tassi with his family, collected the award. “I am honored and grateful to receive this award that gives us enthusiasm and energy to continue in the best way possible towards our goals – he said emotionally in front of an audience of a thousand people – Our company, founded 35 years ago by my parents and today carried forward by me and my brother Matteo, has always been aimed at the search for quality with the goal of bringing into the glass our nuance linked to the identity of our splendid territory, the Collio, extremely suited for white wines.”
In the Guide to Italian Wines, there are almost 5,000 wines tasted by Luca Gardini, who has thus selected 1,000 according to the criteria: cleanliness, recognisability, stylistic rigor, identity, drinkability, company philosophy, company reliability and consistency over time . Fosarin is a cuvée based on Friulano, Malvasia (two of the most interesting native Friulian wines) and Pinot Bianco . A wine that does not fear time and that refines with refinement over the years. Award-winning and highly appreciated both in Italy and abroad, it is a historic and iconic wine for Ronco dei Tassi, given that it was the first vineyard purchased by the Coser family and the first year of production was 1990. Straw yellow in colour, it is delicate, fine and elegant on the nose. Fresh and fruity when young, after the second year of life it becomes complex, broad and spicy. In the mouth it is soft, harmonious, full, with a good complexity linked to the three varieties that compose it. Its alcohol content is 13.5%. At 180 meters above sea level, on Mount Quarin overlooking Cormòns, the 2.5 hectare vineyard from which its grapes come has soil formed by sandstone marls of Eocene origin and the vines have an average age of 55 years . The grapes are harvested manually in the second ten days of September. The refinement until bottling (in December of the following year) takes place in steel tanks for the Friulano and Malvasia and in small oak barrels for the Pinot Bianco. The 2022 version is matured for 10 months in barrique.
Ronco dei Tassi, eco-sustainable viticulture Ronco dei Tassi , standard-bearer of the best winemaking in Friuli Venezia Giulia, is one of the historic and most appreciated wineries in Collio , the most prestigious wine-growing area in this region of North-East Italy. Founded in 1989 by Fabio (a well-known winemaker and consultant to important companies) and Daniela Coser , who were joined by their sons Enrico and Matteo , it now extends over an area of 50 hectares, of which 23 are cultivated with vineyards . This virtuous relationship between the woods and the vineyard area, cultivated with extremely environmentally friendly techniques, allows for the development of eco-sustainable viticulture, which the Cosers are absolutely committed to, to protect their consumers and to guarantee a future for their splendid territory, which they help to preserve. The company’s name derives from two of its peculiarities: the fact that the vineyards are arranged on terraces known as “ronchi” and that colonies of yew trees live here and, when the grapes are ripe, they are fond of the sweetest bunches: a sign that it is the right time to start harvesting them.