Castelvecchio ‘Vitovska’ Carso Bianco 2021

Location: Italy, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Carso

Winemaker: Leo & Mirella Terraneo

Grapes: Vitovska

Soil: Rocky Karst soil with a small substrate of red earth

Winemaking: Slight grape pressing, alcoholic fermentation with indigenous yeasts and maturation sur lie in steel tanks.

From the Producer: Vitovska is a native vine, typical of the Karst area. Visually it is limpid with a deep straw-yellow color. The first impressions on the nose are the hints of honey, beeswax and aromatic herbs such as thyme and savory. On the palate it is dry, very mineral and with a great flavor. Very elegant both to the nose and to the palate.

From the Importer Avant-Garde:  Historical evidence confirms that as early as 1578,  vineyards and olive trees thrived on the Carso hills where the Villa Veneta estate was built; construction started in 1700. The estate is now called Azienda Agricola Castelvecchio and is owned by the Terraneo family. The Castelvecchio estate extends over a plateau 145 meters above sea level.  It is the first Carso rise from the Isonzo di Sagrado and opens up to the Alps to the North and the Adriatic Sea to the South.

The Terraneo family has been dedicated to carrying out an agricultural, agritourism, historical and cultural development project since 1986. Farming traditions has prompted them to cultivate the soil in accordance with the practices of their ancestors: respect of the groundwater, of emissions and of the natural fertilizers that are given to the land.  Sustainability is the heritage that they want to pass to future generations.

They intensify the fertility of the soil through a series of natural and bio-dynamic agronomic practices including helping the roots of the vines go deeper into the limestone rocks to collect the minerals and organic elements that characterize the wines of the Carso.