Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Friuli-Venezia Giulia is Italy's far northeastern wine region, bordering Austria and Slovenia. Its hills, plains, Adriatic shores and rocky plateaus produce very different wines.

Collio and Brda were one wine region before the postwar border divided them. Here, Friulano can show differences between growing locations, while Ribolla Gialla appears in fresh, skin-contact and sparkling styles. Friuli Grave's gravelly plain favors fresh whites such as Ribolla Gialla and Pinot Grigio. Aquileia produces fresh, saline whites and deep, full reds. In Carso, limestone, shallow red earth and bora exposure give wines a mineral, intense and savory character. Vitovska, Malvasia Istriana and Terrano are its signature grapes, while Refosco and Schioppettino are associated with high-acid red wines.

The DOC areas include Collio, Friuli Colli Orientali, Friuli Grave, Friuli Aquileia, Carso and Prosecco. Ramandolo, Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit and Rosazzo are the region's leading DOCG areas.

Producer profiles

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• Azienda Agricola IL RoncalTerraced hilltop estate in Cividale del Friuli farming twenty hectares on marl and sandstone for the Colli Orientali del Friuli DOC, led since 2006 by Martina Moreale after the death of founder Roberto Zorzettig.
• Azienda Agricola Isola AugustaAzienda Agricola Isola Augusta comes from Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. In Italy's far northeast, Friuli-Venezia Giulia borders Austria and Slovenia.
• Azienda Agricola Visintini Andrea di Visintini Oliviero, Cinzia e Palmira s.sBiodynamic estate in Corno di Rosazzo making skin-contact Pinot Grigio Ramato and aromatic whites across three Friulian DOC zones.
• Azienda Agricola ZidarichBenjamin Zidarich farms 8 hectares on the Carso limestone plateau behind Trieste, ageing his Teran, Vitovska, and Malvasia in a 20-metre underground cellar he cut from the rock by hand.
• Azienda LivonCollio estate founded in 1964, producing aromatic white wines from Friuli's hilly Slovenian border zone and a Montefalco Rosso from a separate Umbrian property.
• Cantina di Bertiolo Spa.A 1960 Friuli cooperative whose Casali Roncali Sauvignon Blanc ranked third-best white in Italy in 2024, from dolomite-gravelled soils between the Adriatic and the Alps.
• Cantina Vigna Verde SrlCollective winery on the Friulian plain, drawing on 600-plus hectares between the Venetian lagoon and the Prealps. Founded in 1976, it produces Prosecco Superiore DOCG, Prosecco DOC, a blended spumante cuvée, and TiCa Secco, a semi-sparkling frizzante with yellow pear, honeydew melon, and fine soft bubbles.
• Gruppo MartellozzoPiera Martellozzo's San Quirino range joins Charmat Prosecco, Delle Venezie Pinot Grigio and Terre Magre wines from Friuli.
• Le Vigne di ZamoLe Vigne di Zamò farms three terroir clusters, Rosazzo, Buttrio, and Rocca Bernarda, in the Colli Orientali hills of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The signature is No Name Friulano: lots from different sites handled separately, then eight months on fine lees, producing a single-variety white with stone fruit, dried herbs, and a mineral, textured finish.
• RadikonOslavia estate making amber-hued, skin-macerated whites from Eocene marl in Friuli's Collio borderland.
• SturmFamily estate in Collio, Friuli Venezia Giulia, making organically farmed, skin-macerated Pinot Grigio with pale copper-pink colour. Denis and Patrick Sturm run the estate.
• Tenuta Ca'BolaniFriulian Ca'Bolani in Aquileia DOC harvests and vinifies vineyard plots separately, with varietal Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc and Aquilis.