Packaged in a 375-milliliter bottle, the lovely La Roncaia 2015 Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit is a beautiful dessert wine that shows balanced intensity and lasting elegance. The bouquet reflects some ripe or dried fruit with candied apricot, honey and brown sugar, but there are also fresher aromas of orange zest and almond blossom. If you are a fan of precious Picolit, as I am, you will love this round and generous wine that is sweet, but not cloying, fruity and fresh. Enjoy some shortbread cookies alongside this release of 4,000 bottles.

The 2010 Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit is a decadent and delicious dessert wine that opens to a deep golden color and beautifully fragrant tones of honey, sweet almond, caramel, candied fruit and apricot. The intensity is impressive and so is the purity of the aromas on hand. In terms of Picolit, La Roncaia has definitely crafted a modern, plump and enduring expression of this precious and rare Italian dessert wine. Drink: 2014-2021. Importer: Domaine Select Wine Estates, www.domaineselect.com

There’s a soft candy-like element here that recalls butterscotch, caramel and honey-coated almond. The wine is sweet, thick and syrupy with apricot and candied orange peel on the close.——M.L.(12/15/2011)—— 90

This is a very pretty Picolit with lively aromas of dried apricot, honeysuckle, freshly chopped nuts and lemon zest. The wine is thick but fresh in the mouth and would pair with desserts (spongecake or fruit tarts) and foie gras.——M.L.(12/15/2009)—— 91

La Roncaia’s Picolit exhibits a very distinctive style. The wine is thick and dark amber in color and has rich, almost brooding notes of toast, pine resin, molasses and burnt caramel. It’s definitely on the extracted, syrupy side and might pair better with Roquefort or aged cheese than it would with dessert. ——M.L.(12/15/2008)—— 88