The deep connection that the Bastianich family has with the world of wine takes us back decades and generations. In fact, it goes back to the encounters with the most important winemaking families in the 1970s and 1980s and the promotion of the best Friulian wines on the menus of the family's various restaurants in the United States. It was precisely this passion for wine, combined with the desire to rediscover and rediscover their origins, that led the Bastianich family, in 1997, to plant the first vineyards in Buttrio and Cividale del Friuli, in one of Italy's most vocated areas for the production of white wines.
Bastianich has owned the vineyards since 1997. The vineyards are in two distinct areas of the DOC Colli Orientali del Friuli. The first vineyard is situated on the Buttrio and Premariacco hills, in the hottest and southernmost region of the DOC. Influenced by the warmth coming from the sea, it provides the grapes for the production of our full-bodied and structured Cru wines, such as Vespa Bianco, Vespa Rosso, Plus and Calabrone. The second vineyard, which is located in the hills of Cividale del Friuli, is influenced by the Bora, the cold wind from the north, which produces wines of greater aromatic intensity during the coldest nights.