Lovingly defined by Veronelli as "the farmer", Livio Felluga was a courageous, visionary, enlightened man, always with an eye towards his family, his land and his hills.
It is easy to understand how the history of Livio Felluga and of his wine is intertwined with the history of that particular land which surrounds the extreme north-eastern part of the Adriatic Sea, the point of contact between the Mediterranean Sea and Central Europe. It is a history of borders that have changed many times, of empires that have disappeared, of past wars... of people who have stopped here. It is the story of a man who has lived through two world wars, lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire first and then in the young Kingdom of Italy, lived on the rocky coast of the Istrian peninsula and in the Grado lagoon.
Livio Felluga moved to Friuli at the end of the 1930's and settled in the sweet hills of Rosazzo. His dream of producing wine from the hills was interrupted by the call to the front.
As if that were not enough, the return to Italy was not easy for the veterans of the Second World War: the physical, political and ethnic borders had changed, as had the agricultural and social landscape of the hills. The peasant population was leaving, further impoverishing the land and abandoning the crops, values and traditions linked to it.
Livio Felluga had to undertake a new battle to resurrect the hillside, convinced that only the rebirth of quality farming could bring life back to the Friulian countryside.
With great courage he started to restore the ancient vineyards of Rosazzo and to plant new ones, introducing innovative ideas and methods.
A hard work, undertaken with great stubbornness and passion that will lead him over the years to create one of the most beautiful and significant companies of Italy, acquiring the title of refounder of Friuli's viticultural tradition and reference actor of the Italian enological renaissance.