Tenuta Stella at Vinitaly 2025. The Friulian winery will debut at the Verona event with two new labels: Friulano Riserva 2021 and Merlot Riserva 2021.
Tenuta Stella , a winery nestled among the hills of Scriò, in the most authentic heart of the Friulian Collio, presents two new labels that mark a significant evolution of its path: Friulano Riserva 2021 and Merlot Riserva 2021. They will be presented as an absolute preview at Vinitaly 2025, the first official opportunity to discover these wines designed to tell, in an even deeper and more refined way, the complexity of the territory from which they are born.
With the debut of these Reserves, the winery completes a high-profile trilogy that adds two new interpretations capable of expressing the most intense, long-lasting and vibrant identity of the Collio to the Ribolla Gialla Riserva already in the collection.
The complete expression of Tenuta Stella’s production philosophy, these wines are born from a rigorous selection of grapes, from a vinification respectful of natural times and from a long refinement in wood. The result is a living, stratified material, which becomes the voice of a landscape, a history and a vision.
The Friulano Riserva 2021 comes from a historic vineyard dating back to 1926 and ages for 24 months in second passage tonneaux, revealing a complex and layered aromatic profile, made of orange peel, dried apricot, dried flowers and spices. A wine of great tension and personality, capable of facing time and surprising even as a meditation wine. The Merlot Riserva 2021 , produced from seventy-year-old vines grown in Scriò, is aged for two years in new French oak barriques. An enveloping and powerful red, which combines elegance and softness, fruit and spice, and stands out for its structure, balance and extraordinary drinkability.
What distinguishes these two labels is not only the wine quality, but also the aesthetic language: the new Reserves are part of the rebranding process that has redefined the visual identity of the winery with an essential, material, evocative style. The labels, printed on recycled paper and characterized by a refined graphic cleanliness, reflect an idea of wine that is a tribute to life, nature and the silent work of time.
“These new Reserves represent the synthesis of everything we believe in: respect for the vineyard, interpretation of the vintages, patience and the desire to produce sincere, long-lived wines, capable of telling the story of a land and those who look after it every day,” comments Erika Barbieri , oenologist at Tenuta Stella.
Sustainable, elegant, profound. The new wines will be previewed at Vinitaly 2025 , the first official opportunity to taste these two labels destined to occupy a prominent place in the winery’s production. With their debut, Tenuta Stella further strengthens its position among the most interesting realities of the Collio, capable of combining contemporary elegance, deep roots and long-term vision.