(FARRA D’ISONZO – GORIZIA) Colmello di Grotta produces wines in Farra d’Isonzo, among its best wines the Rondon, Sanfilip, Collio, Sauvignon, Ribolla Gialla, Pinot Grigio and many others.
Colmello di Grotta’s History and Philosophy
The Colmello di Grotta company is located in the Farra d’Isonzo countryside in the province of Gorizia. Here is also the Ethnographic Museum, “Museum of Documentation of the Peasant Civilization of Farra d’Isonzo”, which thanks to the Bennati family, who became the owner of the estate that belonged to the Strassoldo family in 1965 and that the cellar was founded at the hands of Luciana Bennati, ceded to the Municipality an entire building for the construction of the museum. The place is truly suggestive and seems to immerse itself in the typical nineteenth-century rural village, which maintains the original peasant characteristics.
The company is a thriving center for the numerous vineyards that cover its 15 hectares of vineyards on 21 company hectares. Thus lying the old characteristics of an agricultural landscape delimited by the Isonzo river and the Collio hills. And this is precisely the peculiarity of this company, which is divided between two major names, half DOP Collio and half DOP Isonzo del Friuli in a single body.
Wines that come from vineyards of almost 40 years, at about 40-80 m asl, with native grapes such as: Friulano and Ribolla Gialla and the international Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Merlot, the latter from historical clones imported from France in the beginning from the 60s. The soils are of different composition, in fact the vineyards located on the soils in the Isonzo part are calcareous-gravelly and give life to wines with structure, elegance and intensely perfumed. While the soils located in the Collio part are marly-sandstone, and enhance the complexity of the aromas and the structure bursting on the palate.
Today, Francesca Bortolotto Possati, Luciana’s daughter, is at the helm of the company, who has inherited the same maternal passion and foresight and has launched an important step: the Biological conversion phase, also making use of the advice of the oenologist Michele Bean.
The wines of Colmello di Grotta
In the vineyard and in the cellar, the Friulian tradition in the processing of wine is respected, supported by modern technologies and with a precise philosophy: that of enhancing the care and attention to detail throughout the production cycle, in order to obtain a final product with increasingly high quality levels.
The line offered is divided into 4 proposals: “Riserva”: Rondon, Sanfilip, “Collio”: Sauvignon, Ribolla Gialla, Pinot Grigio, “Isonzo Del Friuli”: Merlot, Friulano, Sauvignon, and finally “Sparkling”: Brut. Among the prestigious wines recognized and rewarded internationally we mention: the fragrant and intense Collio Sauvignon Blanc, the voluminous and fresh Colmello di Grotta Friulano Collio Goriziano, the intense and elegant Colmello di Grotta Merlot Dop Isonzo, the floral and fruity Pinot Grigio Dop Collio, and finally the Colmello di Grotta Brut with its fine and elegant perlage. The Colmello di Grotta wines on the palate tell the story of this ancient land and enclose two souls: one female and one male like its two territories.
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Info & Contacts Colmello di Grotta
Address: Via Gorizia, 133, 34072 Farra D’isonzo GO
Tel: +39 0481 888445
Website:www.colmello.it
e-mail:colmello@spin.it
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