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Dalia Maris, Piccolo Bianco, 2024 Eastern Europe and cranberry fruit lifted byDalia Maris is the personal project of Giampaolo Venica (yes, of Venica & Venica), named for his grandmother and built around old vine native grapes in the hills of Friuli in northeast Italy. Piccolo Bianco is his second wine, a blend of roughly 80% Friulano and 20% Ribolla Gialla drawn from the same old parcels as his flagship. The vines run 60 years and older, the farming is biodynamic, and the wine is whole cluster pressed, fermented with native