Zuc di Volpe Focus Colli Orientali del Friuli DOC 2006

History

The heart of the complex, with its offices and the cellar is comprised of a heritage villa, dating from 1596 and a complex of buildings which surround the villa. Inside the property of 20,000 square metres is found the centuries old park and a small vineyard of Ribolla Gialla, which recalls the wine vocation of Volpe Pasini.

Dating from the seventeenth century there are documents which testify to the wine production on the property. The company since then has always expressed a purely agricultural vocation, and in the second half of the twentieth century it became exclusively wine producing. During the 70’s along with other “pioneering producers”, Volpe Pasini carried Fruilian winemaking into Italy and the world. Leaving behind the logic of wines in demijohns, they concentrated their energies into the research for excellence and into the close examination of new outlets in the international markets (above all USA and Germany).

Now days Volpe Pasini sells 50% of its wines outside Italy, through a solid commercial network more than thirty years old. Today Volpe Pasini is more vital and competitive than before, having found once again the solid base and the innovative willingness which has made it, during the past decades, one of the most important wineries of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Soil, subsoil and microclimate make every grape vine unique.

52 hectares of vineyards, of which half are for white grapes and half are for red grapes, on the hills of Togliano and Prepotto, in the best wine growing areas of the Colli Orientali of Friuli.
In the field, soil, subsoil, topography and microclimate render each vine unique.
In the cellar, old traditions and modern technologies elevate and transform special grapes into extraordinary wines. It is thus that in every bottle you will find a world of tastes, of land, of tradition and in the name of uniqueness within typicality.

Se specifikation

The idea with this wine has been to make a “Focus” on a particular grape variety, the Merlot, that can now be defined as an “adopted” indigenous grape of Friuli, being by now part of the “genetic code” of the inhabitants of Friuli. Its color is ruby red, dark and impenetrable, to the nose has hints of blackberry, black cherry, licorice; wine of great structure, velvely and persistent.

Serving suggestions: Excellent with red meats and noble poultry roasts 
 

Serving temperature: Best served at 18 – 20 °C