The land gives us, for our part, more lessons than any books.
Because it offers resistance.
When pitting himself against an obstacle, man discovers himself. (…)
The farmer, when ploughing, draws out, bit by bit, certain secrets from nature,
and the truth he uncovers is universal.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The land gives us, for our part, more lessons than any books.
Because it offers resistance.
When pitting himself against an obstacle, man discovers himself. (…)
The farmer, when ploughing, draws out, bit by bit, certain secrets from nature,
and the truth he uncovers is universal.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The land gives us, for our part, more lessons than any books.
Because it offers resistance.
When pitting himself against an obstacle, man discovers himself. (…)
The farmer, when ploughing, draws out, bit by bit, certain secrets from nature,
and the truth he uncovers is universal.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

NICOLA MANFERRARI

I took a degree in Pharmacy to keep my family happy, and when I was 23 years old I was working behind the counter at the Farmacia Pontoni e Bassi in Gorizia, which was owned by my mother, Thea, who, when she got annoyed, used to fire me. When, on the 23rd July 1981 my father, Giuseppe, died (he was known as Beppino to his friends and The Italian to his fellow townsfolk as he was from Emilia) my mother, in order to organize the upcoming grape harvest, ordered me to go to my dad’s little smallholding of less than three hectares of vineyard ...read more...

WINES

When my father died on 23rd July 1981, the grapes were already plump and in a few days would begin to take on their true colour. They were my grapes, the same type which, at six years of age, I found myself crushing by turning the handle on my grandfather’s cast iron wine press, something which made me feel like a real grown-up ...read more...

VINEYARDS

One part of this land has belonged to the family since way back (four generations) and has been used to grow grapes since as early as the 1700’s. Another plot adjacent to the first was bought more recently at the end of the ‘60s by Giuseppe, father of Nicola who is the current proprietor ...read more...

CELLAR AND FIELD

Our aim is to produce refined, complex and balanced wines whose character derives principally from the grapes’ places of origin. Our agronomic management and wine-making process are geared towards the pursuit of these objectives ...read more...

THE COLLIO

The Collio, one of the best white wine producing areas in Italy, is a small range of hills formed during the Eocene and situated in the extreme eastern part of northern Italy. In reality it is part of a more extensive chain of higher elevations which runs from the north of Udine south east to where it ends deeply wedged into the Istrian peninsula ...read more...

...AND ITS STORIES

Visitors to our local area, the Collio, discover just how beautiful it is. But why does the Collio appear as it does today? Grape vines have been around here since ancient times, yet the agricultural landscape in the distant past was very different. The land was farmed by smallholders who were largely tenant farmers and settlers, and the estates were rarely managed directly ...read more...