Azienda Agricola Dario Prinčič

Friuli, Italy

Azienda Agricola Dario Prinčič is situated in the Italian Friuli region, on the Italian-Slovenian border in the village of Oslavia. Dario and a couple of his fellow neighboring winemakers started with winemaking in the late 1980’s and refused to treat their vines with chemicals. They established “skin contact wines”, as they call it what many understand as “orange wines”, in Italy where the kind had barely any precedent. Although it was hard to sell in the beginning, they’ve slowly gained a great reputation in the region. Dario has started biodynamic farming in 1988 and bottled his first wines in 1993. The grapes are harvested by hand and de-stemmed in the cellar. For the time of the maceration they’re placed in open wooden vats without temperature control. Following the pressing, they get transferred to old wooden barrels and barriques. Only a small amount of sulphites are added before bottling.