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DOMAINE BALLORIN
Producer
La Castellada
Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Oslavia, Gorizia
Oslavia, Gorizia
23000 bottles in the cellar
Specialities: Orange wine
Giuseppe Bensa and the origin of La Castellada
It was 1954 when Giuseppe Bensa returned to Oslavia after his period of emigration to Switzerland. With the money he earned he bought a vineyard and a small house that he turned into a tavern. In time, the proceeds from the business allowed him to buy more vineyards, so that by the end of the 1970s the estate covered 10 hectares of land.
Giorgio and Nicolò, Giuseppe's sons began at that time to follow the cellar and farm work, until they chose in 1985 to start bottling their own wine, sold before then only in bulk. Thus the farm "La Castellada" was born, where the traditional Collio Friulano wine has always been produced. Wines of great finesse and intensity, able to mature over time, children of a unique terroir.
The Collio Goriziano
This territory is characterized by hills that enjoy a unique microclimate due to constant ventilation and strong temperature ranges. Oslavia's soil is the so-called "Ponca" composed of arenaceous and marly stratifications of Eocene origin.
The vineyard is totally grassed, no chemical fertilizers or pesticides are used, but only copper and sulfur to combat Downy and Powdery mildew. To achieve excellent ripeness and more concentrated grapes, yields are kept deliberately low in the range of 25 to 45 quintals/ha.
"We like to make a rich, complex and structured wine of those salty and mineral characteristics, true distinctive notes of the Oslavia territory. We do this in the most natural way possible, for wines with a long aging capacity."
