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Friuli-Venezia Giulia: A Primer

Friuli-Venezia Giulia: A Primer


Posted on May 31, 2023

Friuli-Venezia Giulia is Italy’s foremost region for producing white wine.

Northern Italy wine region

A fabulous region to visit on all fronts.

Pronounced free-you-lee venn-eat-see-uh Julia, it is often referred to as simply Friuli for short. The region, located in the northeastern corner of the country is truly an undiscovered gem; a picturesque producer of world class wines sold at very fair prices and without the heavy tourism that seems to have taken over much of the wine world.

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Pesquera Winery

Tempranillo Grapes at Pesquera

The natural wine movement has been around in various forms for over a century. At its core, natural wine proponents advocate making a wine with the least amount of human intervention possible. Wine will not just make itself; it requires at least some human intervention to plant the vineyard, pick the grapes and have them ferment. How much intervention beyond that is acceptable to the natural wine movement? Perhaps the biggest criticism of the movement has been that there has never been a single accepted definition or set of criteria that distinguishes a natural wine from one that is not. Until now.

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