Wineries
Blazic let’s go to the Collio area to learn about the cellar and its wines
May
Ciao
Today I’m taking you to Zegla, a small town in the heart of the Cormon hills in Friuli Venezia Giulia. The Blazic winery has been located here since 1923. Today I’m taking you to Zegla, a small town in the heart of the Cormon hills in Friuli Venezia Giulia. The Blazic winery has been located here since 1923.
It is a family-run business with about 7 hectares of land cultivated with vines. There are native vines such as Friulano, Ribolla Gialla and Malvasia but also international ones such as Sauvignon, not to forget reds such as Merlot.
If you pass by the winery, you will find Franco, Cinzia and their son Michele to welcome you; today, they are the ones who run the company founded by Michele’s great-great-grandfather in 1923. The current owners’ goal is to maintain harmony between traditional viticulture and more modern agronomic management. They have decided to transform themselves into an organic company and have already started the transformation process that will lead them to become certified organic wineries in all respects.
The Collio
As I told you, the Blazic winery is in Zegla in the heart of the Collio DOC, a relatively small piece of land which, thanks to the microclimate (the sea breezes arriving from the Adriatic Sea, making the air cleaner and less humid) and the terroir “ponca” (i.e. sandstone marl of Eocene origin due to millenary stratifications, and rich in microelements) allows the grapes and consequently the wine to have unique characteristics.
The winery
The Blazic winery is managed by a family attentive to tradition but with an eye wide open to innovation. All the new techniques and equipment used in the cellar respect nature and guarantee a production fully representative of the work done in the vineyard.The Blazic winery is managed by a family attentive to tradition but with an eye wide open to innovation. All the new techniques and equipment used in the cellar respect nature and guarantee a production fully representative of the work done in the vineyard.
It is essential to know that besides the wines I listed above, the Blazic winery also produces the Zegla wine. We hope to get this wine for sale soon, but we don’t have it yet.
What is Zegla wine? First, it is a wine produced by only three producers, including the Blazic Company, with Friulano grapes from the Zegla area; they have always been considered grapes of higher quality than the average. The winemaking involves three days of maceration, fermentation with native yeasts, and ageing in wood for a period ranging from two to three years. After bottling, the wine rests in the cellar for another five years.
In short, if you pass by Zegla, take advantage of the opportunity to visit this winery.
See you soon
ciao
Monica
