Lovingly defined by Veronelli as "the farmer", Livio Felluga was a courageous, visionary, enlightened man, always with an eye towards his family, his land, 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 lived through two world wars, first in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and then in the young Kingdom of Italy, who lived on the rocky coast of the Istrian peninsula and in the Grado lagoon.
Livio Felluga moved to Friuli at the end of the 1930s and settled in the gentle foothills of the Rosazzo hills. His dream of producing wine from the hills was interrupted by the call to the front.
As if that was not enough, the return to Italy was not easy for the veterans of the Second World War: physical, political and ethnic boundaries had changed, changed forever, just like the agricultural and social landscape of the hills. The farming 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 hill, convinced that only the rebirth of quality farming could bring life back to the Friulian countryside.
With great courage he started restoring the ancient vineyards of Rosazzo and planting new ones, introducing innovative ideas and methods.
A hard work, done with great stubbornness and passion that will lead him over the years to create one of the most beautiful and significant wineries of the Belpaese, acquiring the title of refounder of Friuli's viticultural tradition and reference actor of the Italian enological renaissance.
Description
Fresh and captivating wine, with an unmistakable and multiple bouquet in which notes of exotic fruit, yellow bell pepper, tomato leaves, mint, lantana and boxwood are evident. It is a wine of the Friuli tradition.
Organoleptic characteristics:
Straw yellow with light green reflections, luminous. The nose is intense and complex, varietal and refined. It opens with delicate hints of boxwood, tomato leaf and yellow bell pepper, then explodes with floral notes of elder, broom, acacia flowers, lime and vanilla. Then follow fruity hints of peach, citron, pineapple, litchi and passion fruit and finish with pleasing hints of aromatic herbs, ginger, sage, peppermint and flint.
The taste is sapid and harmonic. Mouth is complex and rich, with hints of citrus and tropical. A wine of great persistence, supported by a balanced acidity, it closes with a captivating mineral and balsamic note.
Delicately destemmed and left to macerate for a short period, it was then softly pressed, and the must thus obtained was clarified by decantation. Fermentation followed at controlled temperature in stainless steel tanks.
