The Colmello di Grotta company was founded in 1965 by the passion and will of Luciana Bennati who managed, in a short time, to restore, in the Piugrave; total respect for local traditions, an old and abandoned small village. The size is deliberately reduced, consumption limited to family members, friends, a few close friends. After the death of Luciana Bennati, the company is led by her daughter Francesca Bortolotto Possati, also linked to Colmello di Grotta by the same passion as her mother, with the intention of bringing the company to the top of Friulian production. The work is animated by the awareness that to achieve this goal it is necessary to continuously commit, looking for new ways to improve all aspects of company products. The company includes 21 hectares of vineyards, half of which are located in the Collio Doc area and half in the Isonzo Doc area. The wines have almost two powerful and masculine personalities the Collio wines, fascinating and feminine those of the Isonzo. The recent addition of new vineyards marks the beginning of a new phase of expansion of the company, setting new ambitious goals in the new century. The vineyards are distributed equally between the two Doc Collio and Isonzo and, despite being very close to each other, have completely different soils. It is perhaps the main characteristic of the company that manages to produce wines with two personalities in their own right. The calcareous-gravelly soil of the Isonzo gives life to wines with an elegant structure, combined with a concentrated intensity of aromas. The marly-sandstone soils of the Collio instead enhance the complexity of the aromas and the bursting structure of the palate.
