The best wineries in Cormons.
The Blazic farm, a family–run company of direct growers located in the heart of the hills of Cormons, has been producing wines with continuity since 1923 and, since 1968, it belongs to the DOC Collio. Just in the 20s it had to deal with the problem of reconstruction of the vineyards destroyed by war; it was the beginning of a new era, that would address the local viticulture to recognized and appreciated channels of quality and seriousness. Today, in the country, there is harmony between a traditional winemaking, with native vines and old clones, and a more modern agronomic management, with new techniques and equipment to respect nature but at the same time allowing to produce grapes that retains all its flavors and aromas who then find themselves in the wines. The terrain consisting of stratified marl and sandstone of Eocene origin, an ideal substrate for vinegrowing. The proximity of the sea and of the Julian Pre–Alps contributes to a perfect microclimate for balanced wines to be drunk fresh but even after medium–long aging. The micro–climate, the land and the men are, in the hill of Zegla, in perfect balance, especially for the production of white wines going from grapes to the glass only with the help of a proper winemaking processing, without any intervention of a chemical nature.
The winery is based on a rich farming tradition and was founded at the beginning of the 19th century at Brazzano near Cormòns in the province of Gorizia by Luigi Zorzon, the grandfather of the present owner Giorgio DEGANIS. The familiy-run winery is situated among green hills in the heart of the Collio which offer a unique panorama, in close proximity to many historic towns including Gorizia, Grado, Trieste, Aquileia, Udine and Cividale. We currently manufacture prestigious white and red wines respecting both tradition and nature. Giorgio Deganis together with his Austrian girlfriend leads the company. We are delighted to welcome guests in our winery for tasting wines and regional products. In addition we offer two attractive rooms and one apartment for spending some days in the beauty of the COLLIO area.
The Polje farm covers a territory of more than 12 hectares of vineyards, some of them very old, situated on the sunny slopes of a hill and facing South–east.
The wines that express in the best way the characteristics typical of the "polje", to say the sinkholes that mark the lands of the Collio, in the surrounding area of Cormons, are Friulano (formerly Tocai Friulano), Ribolla and Sauvignon, which are also the ones that best enhance the grapes of this prestigious wine area, one of the most interesting in the world.
From other red grape vineyards of the eastern hills of Friuli, Refosco Dal Peduncolo Rosso is produced, a structured and elegant red wine, fruit of the great tradition of Friuli.
In 1850, in the beautiful and harmonious hills of Collio, in Zegla, the Sturm farm was founded.
For more than two centuries, from generation to generation, from father to son, the passion for the wine art has been handed down, to the present day, where we meet Oscar Sturm.
With regard to the business management, this has always been family–run. Oscar Sturm now leads the company using the precious help of his colleagues: his wife Dunja (Sommelier) and his children.
The vineyard surface now amounts to 10 hectares, all of property. This organizational aspect is extremely important for a variety of transactions and accurate controls that are put into practice during the entire production cycle, towards commercialization, to guarantee the quality of our wines.
Under the chemical point of view, the soils are of sandstone of Eocene marl. This type of soil is particularly suitable for the cultivation of the vine.
The vine training systems used in the company are two: "Guyot" and "Capuccina". On each strain there are not more than 10/12 buds per fruit. In the vineyard, during the summer months, a thinning of grapes is carried out to select the best grapes for winemaking and to achieve a further concentration of the components of the berry.
With these techniques of vineyard management, aimed at reducing yields, we produce an average of 9 t/ha of healthy and ripe grapes. The grapes are harvested strictly by hand, in order to preserve the integrity and the peculiarities of the organoleptic characteristics.
The winery is completely underground, ensuring in this way a constant temperature throughout the year.
The winery presents a beautiful harmony between stainless steel containers (equipped with automatic temperature control) and French oak barrels (for the fining and the aging of red and white wines). It houses modern equipment and machinery, such as the horizontal pneumatic press (for the soft pressing of the grapes), the wine refrigerator, not "invasive" filters, the stemmer (to prevent the passage to must of the bitter tannins present in the stalk, etc.).
Special precautions and care are paid in hygiene and cleanliness which are essential to prevent the development of potential sources of pollution.
It is the year 1972, when our father Luigi Antonutti, one of the deans of the Friulian wine, fulfilled what he had dreamt for a long time: to live full time as a winemaker. In love with the land and the fruits that these hills dispense he bought a few hectares in the heart of the Collio Goriziano area. Azienda Agricola Subida di Monte was than founded, that over the years grew, now occupying an area of about 10 hectares, thanks to the love and dedication that Gigi has been able to give it. Now it is up to us children, Cristian and Andrea, the task of continuing on the path of our father, so we take care personally of managing the vineyards and the cellar. Our goal is to produce wines with utmost respect for nature and the land, therefore, synthetic chemicals, pesticides and herbicides are not used anymore. We respect nature and its laws looking for a harmonious relationship with the surrounding environment in order to produce natural grapes from which a wine that is an expression of the land and the vine is made. The management of the vineyards provides only the specific use of natural organic fertilizers, a controlled planting of grass, and for the defense against the cryptogams only products with low environmental impact, not detrimental to the health of man, are used. The grapes are harvested by hand, vinification takes place mainly in stainless steel tanks with temperature control of fermentation while fining requires wines to stay on the lees until the bottling period. An average of 50,000 bottles a year, obtained from 10 hectares of vineyards with different planting densities (5,000–7,000 vines/hectare) are produced.
Early 70s: the undersigned, unconvinced student in Law, made the same discovery and devoted more and more to the company and less and less to the law firm, which in a beautiful May morning was abandoned without regret.
Early 90s: my wife Veronica (female intuition and foresight) "forced" me to buy another 3 and a half hectares with the result of producing, in addition to our classic wines, even Verduzzo with which we produce a Raisin wine, La Veronica, precisely!
Veronica and Paolo Caccese
1870 was the year in which the Gradnik Farm started its vinegrowing activity. Gradimiro Gradnik, for all Miro Di Plessiva, had the courage to turn over these extreme lands and to plant vines. It was among the first ones in Collio to begin the trade of wine bottles. It is easy to say now, but it was almost futuristic in the sixties. Since then, the Gradnik Farm engaged on the production of quality in the best tradition of the Collio area. It is situated near Cormons, in Plessiva locality, 110 meters above sea level, on the crest of Italian Collio. The vineyards are totally exposed to the south, have gradually been renovated and replanted with fine vines. The soil is of marly–calcareous feature tending to clayey. In effect, the ploughed virgin soils peel gradually during winter and give rise to the ideal substrate for the development of vines. Now the daughter of Miro, Neda, along with her children, continues the work with wise capacity. There, a few meters from the border with Slovenia, the Gradnik family is waiting in its tavern for lovers of good wine.
Cormons: over two hundred winemakers welcome you in the heart of Europe, in the extreme northeastern edge of Italy, in the Friuli of the world most valuable wine–producing areas. We invite you to learn about the Cormnos Producers’ Winery, founded in the late sixties thanks to the foresight of some vinegrowers of Cormons, who wanted to treasure secular traditions. Ezio Dalla Pozza, Aldo Moretti, Adriano Drius: enthusiast presidents who, along with the Winery Master Luigi Soini, supported by the principle that the future of vines and wine was not linked to ephemeral fashions, but to the persistent enhancement of a territory. In this way, a Winery was founded, unique in the world for the quality of its wine and its many initiatives.
At the gates of Cormons, in Angoris locality, the central body of the Villa Locatelli company welcomes visitors with its unique diagonal of cypress trees, a centuries old park, the symmetries of the vineyards, the colors of fall or the illuminating yellow color of rapeseed in blossom in spring. Here the 620 hectares of the company extend.
100 hectares are vineyards, the rest is divided into wine cellar, forests and other agricultural uses. Our vineyards are located in the 3 DOC zones of reference of Friuli: Isonzo in the plain, Collio DOC and Colli Orientali DOC in the hills.
A family of proud vinegrowers, the Picéch have been living since 1920 on the Pradis hill and in 1963, with pride, effort and courage, have become owners of the vines where they already worked. Since 1989 Roberto has taken over the management of the company, previously set by his father Egidio, called “il Ribel” and his mother Jelka, transforming it into the jewel that we see today. Reliable, skilled, dynamic, he is a point strength of the Collio system and one of the most respected producers of the new generation, not only for the personal character that he has given to his wines, but also for the story of how he began to create them. Now he is continuing this tradition with his wife Alessia and his children Athena and Ruben.
The Toros farm is located in Cormons (GO) in the DOC Collio area. It is possible to visit the winery and taste the wines.
The winery is located 15 km from the airport of Ronchi dei Legionari and 3 km from the railway station of Cormons.
At the beginning of the twentieth century the Toros family, after several migrations, took roots in Novali, an area where life and the land were, historically, in perfect harmony, then as now. The Toros family definitely prevailed, but the real specialtization was the work of Mario, the father and teacher of the current owner Franco, who with his large family succeeded in handling the job with seriousness even after the death of Mario, living and working, in his memory, in absolute harmony in the cru where the vineyards, on gentle soils, frame the company. Franco has recently converted the vineyards and has been able to achieve a strong and intelligent modernization of the winery, providing it with functional and modern equipment including, in particular, a system of pressing and thermo–conditioning. He is also trying, with enthusiasm, the experience of oak, for some particularly structured type, both white and red. To place the barrels he wanted to create a different angle, digging deep in the hills of Novali, where temperature inversions are non–existent. The return, of course partial, to the wooden barrels, is nothing more than a historical appeal, quite natural in the Collio area, therefore, to repeat in 2000 what dad Mario already knew how to do well half a century ago.
The company was founded in 1989 when Fabio Coser and his wife Daniela decided to buy a farm of about 9 hectares, 4 of which were vineyards, in the heart of Collio Goriziano and more specifically in the town of Cormons.
Today the property, which extends to the limits of a natural park at an altitude ranging between 140 and 200 meters above sea level, is spread over an area of over 25 hectares, of which more than 18 are vineyards.
To the presence of several colonies of badgers (tassi), which in the period in which the grapes ripen become greedy consumers of the most sweet clusters, and to the particular arrangement of the well–exposed vineyards in terraces called "ronchi", the name "Ronco dei Tassi" is owed.
The company is run by a family, with the two sons, Matteo and Enrico, with the objective to grow and continue the ongoing pursuit of quality improvement trying to maintain and develop increasingly strong traditional values and a such an important territory.
The philosophy of the company production is mainly based on rigorous and careful cultivation of the vineyard and on a careful and respectful handling of winemaking techniques. All this allows us to be able to retain in the final product those characteristics and features typical of the fruit and of the area from which it is originated.
DORO PRINCIC grabbed, at the beginning of the 60s, the first stimuli that the new born Consortium of the COLLIO DOC Wines – Count Douglas ATTEMS in the lead – offered, in terms of quality of grapes and wines of the future, especially for the great white wines, represented by a bottle. Intelligent, serious as a few are, and attentive to every innovation, he was one of the first to focus on bottling and to study in depth the adaptability to the soils of Pradis (marl and sandstone) of French grape varieties such as Pinot Blanc and Sauvignon, without denying his beloved Friulian Tocai. With the wisdom of always, accentuated after the fateful 80th birthday, DORO has been able to gradually hand over the reins to his son Alessandro, who grew up harmoniously beside him and with whom he still lives, in health and lucidity, “pampered” as befits a “grand old man” by the good feelings of his daughter–in–law, Maria Grazia, and his grandson CARLO, student of oenology in Cividale del Friuli and, therefore, the guarantor of the technical future of the “DORO PRINCIC” company, a model business that keeps in its BRAND and in its label the name of the founder.
The sense of research of Borgo San Daniele is expressed in a limited number of labels and keywords: mineral features of the soil, first of all, very difficult to express in words, but clearly perceptible in the wines that are produced; the territory means the exploitation of indigenous varieties of grapes and the conscious recovery of historically rooted in our culture grapes, such as Pignolo, a difficult and introverted plant.
Precise values are the result of precise rules in the vineyard and then in the winery: vineyards are always maintained with high density of planting and low vigor, with grassing and thinning in summer, and then late harvest, maceration extended to white wines, malolactic fermentation, long stays on yeasts in different micro–environments of ripening, in order to finally arrive to bottling without filtration.
That of Dario Raccaro is a historical company. Founded in 1928, managed first by his grandfather and then by his father, initially had only a small vineyard and a stable for the animals. From the eighties onwards, Dario has marked a productive shift in the company: he rented a few hectares of vineyard, and abandoned the less profitable crops, to focus almost exclusively on wine. Of him was also the decision to plant Pinot Gray and Sauvignon to create the excellent Collio Bianco.
At the beginning of the nineties the market of Malvasia and Tocai was not as good as today, but Dario has never stopped believing strongly in these varieties and to enhance them. So much so that some of the most flattering recognition by the critics came right on the typical Tocai. Raccaro is also the president of the municipal winehouse of Cormons, which over the years has become a reference point for all producers of Collio and promotional vehicle of primary importance for this extreme eastern tip of the peninsula.
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Località Zegla 16 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
The Blazic farm, a family–run company of direct growers located in the heart of the hills of Cormons, has been producing wines with continuity since 1923 and, since 1968, it belongs to the DOC...
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Via Sottomonte, 75 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
The winery is based on a rich farming tradition and was founded at the beginning of the 19th century at Brazzano near Cormòns in the province of Gorizia by Luigi Zorzon, the grandfather of the...
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Loc. Novali, 11 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
The Polje farm covers a territory of more than 12 hectares of vineyards, some of them very old, situated on the sunny slopes of a hill and facing South–east.The wines that express in the best...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA
Loc. Zegla, 1 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
In 1850, in the beautiful and harmonious hills of Collio, in Zegla, the Sturm farm was founded.For more than two centuries, from generation to generation, from father to son, the passion for the...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA
Via Subida n.6 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
It is the year 1972, when our father Luigi Antonutti, one of the deans of the Friulian wine, fulfilled what he had dreamt for a long time: to live full time as a winemaker. In love with the land...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA
Località Pradis, 6 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
Early 70s: the undersigned, unconvinced student in Law, made the same discovery and devoted more and more to the company and less and less to the law firm, which in a beautiful May morning was...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA
Località Plessiva, 5 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
1870 was the year in which the Gradnik Farm started its vinegrowing activity. Gradimiro Gradnik, for all Miro Di Plessiva, had the courage to turn over these extreme lands and to plant vines. It...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA
Via Vino della Pace, 31 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
Cormons: over two hundred winemakers welcome you in the heart of Europe, in the extreme northeastern edge of Italy, in the Friuli of the world most valuable wine–producing areas. We invite you...
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Loc. Angoris, 7 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
At the gates of Cormons, in Angoris locality, the central body of the Villa Locatelli company welcomes visitors with its unique diagonal of cypress trees, a centuries old park, the symmetries of...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA
Località Pradis, 11 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
A family of proud vinegrowers, the Picéch have been living since 1920 on the Pradis hill and in 1963, with pride, effort and courage, have become owners of the vines where they already worked....
CONTATTA & PRENOTA
Via Novali, 12 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
The Toros farm is located in Cormons (GO) in the DOC Collio area. It is possible to visit the winery and taste the wines. The winery is located 15 km from the airport of Ronchi dei Legionari and 3...
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Località Monte, 38 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
The company was founded in 1989 when Fabio Coser and his wife Daniela decided to buy a farm of about 9 hectares, 4 of which were vineyards, in the heart of Collio Goriziano and more specifically...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA
Località Pradis, 5 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
DORO PRINCIC grabbed, at the beginning of the 60s, the first stimuli that the new born Consortium of the COLLIO DOC Wines – Count Douglas ATTEMS in the lead – offered, in terms of quality of...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA
Via S. Daniele, 38 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
The sense of research of Borgo San Daniele is expressed in a limited number of labels and keywords: mineral features of the soil, first of all, very difficult to express in words, but clearly...
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Via San Giovanni, 87 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
That of Dario Raccaro is a historical company. Founded in 1928, managed first by his grandfather and then by his father, initially had only a small vineyard and a stable for the animals. From the...
CONTATTA & PRENOTA