Ronco del Gelso Aur Traminer Passito 0.375L 2017

How is a wine born? On an estate like mine it is certainly not the product of market research, but more likely the fruit of an intuition or belief, either mine or that of another member of the family. To be honest, I must admit that I didnt ever think that I would make a dessert wine, but that is whats happening. This is the story of Aur: a few years ago a plot of land adjoining our estate came up for sale. It was a tempting opportunity, so I took out a mortgage and bought it. So far so good, but I still had to tackle the main problem, namely that the 18,000-square-metre plot was planted to Traminer, and if theres one wine that I dont like its precisely dry Traminer. The conflict between its sweet, aromatic nose and dry, salty palate is the exact opposite of the character that I try to give my wines. At the time I tasted a great many Traminers from all over the world, but none of them served to change my mind. Only those with a sweet aftertaste convinced me, and the dried-grape wines most of all. My tastings resulted in a project for a dessert wine that I called AUR, which means gold in Friulian.