The Friuli-Venezia Giulia region tucked up in the north eastern corner of Italy, some might almost say forgotten we say beautifully undiscovered. Sharing its borders with Slovenia and Austria and Croatia this is a region with a massive mix of culture, foods and of course wines, We just have so many good things to say about this region, its people, wines, We love it here.
When we look at the size of the production of these wines you will be shocked. 15,000 Bottles, 80,000 bottles , you are going to be hard pushed to find a wine maker worth this salt with more than 100,000 bottles annual production. And this is the USP (unique selling point) of this region we are going to meet the owners, the winemakers as they are the same person, there is no PR or language student that will accompany us to understand what is going on, we will meet the people who from grape to bottle know everything about the process. One of the Idiosyncrasies of the areas closer into the border of Slovenia, there can often be cloud break with clouds being lower than vineyards, this has multiple favoring factors in the ripening of the skins, there are many factors at work here. Friuli is one of Italy’s most unvisited wine regions making it an exceptional wine region for vineyard visits.
Friuli, or Friuli-Venezia Giulia has some of the most interesting native varieties in Italy, unique, not able to be grown in other regions like they are here. Whites for once take the fame but this in no way means its a one trick pony, Colder climate reds, merlot and Cabernet Franc Schioppettino, Refosco and Pignolo can be shown to exceptional in their ageing potential and personality, think Bressan and Denis Montanar who are both in fact in the plans not on the hills. Wineries tend towards the smaller family run concerns and are of course better for it. While there are blends made here this is a region that tend to make single variety wines and they have many interesting grapes and styles. The two major DOC areas areas are Collio Goriziano which we tend to just call Collio and Colli Orientali (Eastern). If two words can be used about the white wines from this region it will be a freshness signs of higher acidity and minerality.
Among the close to 20 varieties we find Ribolla Gialla that is one of the favorites of winemakers along with Friulano, still know locally to the traditionalists Tocai (Hungary won its use of the name, but Here in Italy they are not conformist. Pinot Grigio which despite its malled brand makes exceptional macerated examples in the hills and the resultant wine is pink in colour, on the western planes of Friuli less so. We have Pinot Bianco and some Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay Traminer, Malvasia and Italian Riesling. Verduzzo can be be sweet or dry and finally there is the rare and tricky to make Picolit that can give the best of the worlds sweet wines something to think about.
This is a list of the most of the wineries we work with in Friuli. If the winery is on this list it means we believe in one or some of their wines and of course the people, the visit and personalities. And expect big personalities here. The wines are respected throughout the world as some of the most mineral and interesting of cold climate whites. Orange or Macerated wines from the Oslavia region of Fruili are truly unique and unfortunately once your hooked on them there is very few places in the world that can match them, so be careful, and of course they are not what you could call everyday sipping wine. These wineries are more often tiny family concerns making hand crafted wines no more than 30/50k bottles a year. When we take you into the vineyards and wineries you are going to meet the people who count, the owner and normally the enologist.
Table of contents
- Aquila del Torre
- Borgo del Tiglio
- Castello di Buttrio
- Cotar
- Damijan
- Dario Princic
- Drius
- Edi Simcic
- Fulvio Bressan
- Gravner
- Il Carpino
- Isonzo del Friuli
- Klinec
- La Castellada
- Movia
- Paraschos
- Petrussa
- Produttori di Ramandolo
- Rodaro
- Ronchi di Cialla
- Ronco delle Betulle
- Sara e sara
- Simcic Marjan
- Tercic Matijaz
- Terpin
- Venica&Venica
- Vie di Romans
- Vignai da Duline
- Villa Russiz
- Vodopivec
- Zuani
FRIULI – Wineries – Aquila del Torre
Via Attimis 25, Fraz. Savorgnano del Torre, 33040 Povoletto, Udine, Italia
Tel. +390432666428
Michele Ciani
Tel. +393775063426
FRIULI – Wineries – Borgo del Tiglio
Az. Arg. Borgo del Tiglio di Nicola Mangerrari
via San Giorgio 71, 34070 Brazzano (GO) Italia
Tel. +39048162166
Fax. +390481630845
FRIULI – Wineries – Castello di Buttrio
Buttrio (ud) Via Morpurgo 9
Tel. +390432673015
FRIULI – Wineries – Cotar
Branko & Vasja Čotar
Gorjansko 4a, Si-6223 Komen, Slovenia
Tel/Fax. +0386 (0)5 7668 228
Cell phone Branko: 00386 (0)41 667 126
Cell phone Vasja: 00386 (0)41 870 274
Restaurant
Phone at the restaurant: 00386 (0)5 7668 194
Working hours:
– sat.: 12.00 – 25.00 and 18.00 – 24.00
– sun.: 12.00 – 22.00
– during the week: only pre-arranged groups
FRIULI – Wineries – Damijan
Via Brigata Pavia, 61 – 34170 Gorizia
TEL/FAX + 39 0481.78217
FRIULI – Wineries – Dario Princic
“Principally orange wine expert. Outstanding wines but – as for Gravner – you have to be more at home with that wine style.”
No website so no adress
FRIULI – Wineries – Drius
Azienda Agricola Mauro Drius, Via Filanda 100, 34071 Cormòns (GO) Italy
TEL/FAX: +39 0481 60998
MAIL: [email protected]it
P.IVA 00534800313
FRIULI – Wineries – Edi Simcic
Vipolže 39 a SI – 5212 Dobrovo, BrdaSlovenia
Mobile:
Aleks Simčič: +386 30 602 564
Martina Simčič: +386 51 688 871
FRIULI – Wineries – Fulvio Bressan
Via Conti Zoppini 35, 34070 Farra D’Isonzo, Gorizia, Italia
Tel. +390481888131
Fax. +390481889824 / 888131
Mobil. +393386083895
FRIULI – Wineries – Gravner
Località Lenzuolo Bianco 9, Oslavia 34170 Gorizia, Italia
Tel. +39048130882
Fax. +390481548871
FRIULI – Wineries – Il Carpino
San Floriano del Collio (Go) località Sovenza 14/a
Tel. +0481884097
Fax. +0481884205
Franco Sosol Mobile: + 3389314024
Anna Sosol Mobile: + 3408320020
FRIULI – Wineries – Isonzo del Friuli
Via Gramsci, 2/4 Cormons (Gorizia) – Italy
Tel: +39 0481 61833
Fax: +39 0481 634840
FRIULI – Wineries – Klinec
Medana 20, 5212 Dobrovo v Brdih, Slovenia
Tel: + 646 588 1106
Fax: + 646 304 5670
FRIULI – Wineries – La Castellada
Località Oslavia 1, 34170 Oslavia (GO)
Tel. +39048133670
Fax. +390481531153
FRIULI – Wineries – Movia
eglo 18, 5212 Dobrovo v Brdih
OFFICE:
T: +386 5 395 95 10 (Vesna Kristančič, Mateja Pavlin)
F: +386 5 395 95 11
M: +386 41 735 777
E-mail: [email protected]
WINE BAR & SHOP VINOTEKA MOVIA Kristančič Vesna s.p.
Mestni trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana
T: +386 1 425 54 48 (Borut Ličen)
F: +386 1 426 22 430
M: +386 51 304 590
E-mail: [email protected]
OPENING HOURS:
Mon-Fri: 12.00h – 23.00h
DISTRIBUTION SLOVENIA
Ines Markič
T: +386 41 393 412
FRIULI – Wineries – Paraschos
Bucuie 13/a, 34070 San Floriano del Collio, Gorizia
Tel. +393282645280
FRIULI – Wineries – Petrussa
Via Albana 49, 34030 Prepotto (UD)
Tel. +0432713192
FRIULI – Wineries – Produttori di Ramandolo
Nimis (ud), Piazza 29 Settembre
Tel. +390432878465
FRIULI – Wineries – Rodaro
Via Cormòns 60, Spessa 33043 Cividale del Friuli, Udine, Italy
Tel/Fax. +390432716066
Lara Boldarino (Marketing and sales director)
Tel. +393351418187
FRIULI – Wineries – Ronchi di Cialla
Via Cialla, 47 Cialla di Prepotto, 33040 Udine, Italia
Telephone:+39 0432 731679
Fax:+39 0432 709806
E-mail: [email protected]
FRIULI – Wineries – Ronco delle Betulle
Manzano (ud), località Rosazzo via A. Colonna 24
Tel. +390432740547
FRIULI – Wineries – Sara e sara
Via Dei Monti 5, 33040 Savorgnano del Torre
Tel/fax. 0432666365
FRIULI – Wineries – Simcic Marjan (Slovenija)
Ceglo 3B, 5212 Dobrovo Slovenija
Tel. +38653959200
Fax. +38653959201
Mobil. +38641614768
FRIULI – Wineries – Tercic Matijaz
Via Vucuie 4A, 34070 San Floriano del Collio (GO)
Tel. +0481884920
FRIULI – Wineries – Terpin
Località Valserice 6A, 34070 San Floriano del Collio (GO)
Tel. +0481884215
FRIULI – Wineries – Venica&Venica
Dolegna del Collio, località Cerò 8
Tel +39048161264
FRIULI – Wineries – Vie di Romans
Mariano del Friuli – Gorizia – Italy
Phone: +39 0481 69600
Fax: +39 0481 699745
FRIULI – Wineries – Vignai da Duline
Via 4 Novembre, 33048 San Giovanni al Nat (UD) Italy
Tel/Fax. +390432758115
FRIULI – Wineries – Villa Russiz
Via Russiz 4/6, Caprica del Friuli, Gorizia
Tel. +39048180047
Fax. +390481809657
FRIULI – Wineries – Vodopivec
Località Colludrozza, 4 – 34010 Sgonico | TS – Italy
Tel/Fax. +39 040 229181
FRIULI – Wineries – Zuani
Località Glasbana 12, 34070 San Floriano del Collio (GO)
Tel. +0481391432