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The Pecorari family estate sits near the hamlet of San Lorenzo Isontino, 8km to the west of the town of Gorizia in the eponymous province in the north-east of Italy, where the country borders Slovenia. Here, the Dolomites turn towards the Adriatic Sea, offering abundant south-facing slopes which expose vineyards to both the sun and the cooling onshore breezes coming across the alluvial plain.

In 1973, Pierpaolo Pecorari took over the management of the family business and determined to give greater attention to his vines. He was willing to go back to nature, radically overhauling the structure of the vineyards. Pierpaolo wanted to give his business almost philosophical criteria, breaking with the production system then widely used and starting a pioneer’s path of quality, which allowed him to best reflect the characteristics of the land.


The territory
Farming has always been a part of this family and of the inhabitants of this land.  During the 18th and 19th centuries, wine production was not the main activity of the farms but vine cultivation was widely practised on this plateau. In 1973, Pierpaolo Pecorari took over the management of the family business and determined to give greater attention to his vines. He was willing to go back to nature, radically overhauling the structure of the vineyards. Pierpaolo wanted to give his business almost philosophical criteria, breaking with the production system then widely used and starting a pioneer’s path of quality, which allowed him to best reflect the characteristics of the land.

Behind any sincere and genuine wine there is the land. This is a lean land, where the vine grows so well as to create grapes of the highest quality. The land is flat, about 15 metres above the Isonzo river; the soil is sweet, light, pebbley and formed by sands of good quality. It is a dry land, rich in mineral salts, kissed by the sun and by the good, fresh air. These characteristics make this land exceptionally well vocated to vine cultivation, which grown with care and with a lack of unnatural substances, can only produce little and richly flavoured grapes. Pierpaolo says: "Our origin and our spirit live in this land and we find ourselves in her."