| Ramandolo | |
| Type: | DOCG |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Country: | Italy |
| Part Of: | Friuli Colli Orientali |
| Planted: | 39 ha in 2015 |
| Varietals: | Verduzzo |
| Wine Produced: | 920 hl / 10,200 cases in 2016[1] |
| Comments: | Sweet wines only |
Ramandolo is a sweet white Italian wine from the village of the same name which is situated in the hills near Nimis in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia wine region of northeast Italy. It is made from a local variety of the Verduzzo grape. Since 2001, Ramandolo has been produced as a DOCG wine. Prior to this it was a subzone of the Colli Orientali del Friuli DOC.[2]
Verduzzo grapes destined for DOCG wine production are limited to a harvest yield no greater than 10 tonnes/ha with the grapes allowed to hang on the vine late in the season and may even receive extra drying after picking. This allows for a greater concentration of sugar which leaves a wine with noticeable residual sweetness even with the high minimum alcohol level of 14% required.[3]
Wine expert Peter Saunders describes well made examples of Ramandolo from favorable vintages as fragrant, full-bodied, slightly tannic and not too sweet.[3] Karen MacNeil describes Ramandolo as having a copper sheen to its deep yellow color with herbal notes.[4]