The Skok wine company was founded in 1968 by the brothers Giuseppe and Armando Skok. The beginning of an activity in a period of choises and realizing immediately the potentialities of the vines in the Collio area, the brothers focused and put all their energies on this one.
The objectives of the Skok family has always been the vine cultivation, the production of grapes and its transformation into wine of quality. In addition, the is the great passion, real and palpable, infused to pursue and achieve the goals set.
Claudio Fabbro, historical voice of Collio, reminds that when he worked at the analysis laboratory of the Consortium, the most diverse wine samples were taken to him. They were generic "Bianco", with their respective number in the tank, or Tocai and Pinot Bianco, very popular in the 70s. Against the tide, Giuseppe Pepi Skok anticipated of ten years the guidelines of a dozen varieties of Collio and had concentrated, since then, his attention to the cultivation of Pinot Grigio and Sauvignon. With these wines, now the most significant results have been obtained, with the two "Bicchieri Rossi" by Gambero Rosso and "Vino Slow" mention by Slow Food.
Since 1991, the sons of Giuseppe, Edi and Orietta, have been running the company and have innovated the production and winemaking techniques. The very attentive care of the vineyards, made to express their potential in the best way, and a well–established philosophy of production, made them achieve the good results of today.
In 2011, the Skok wine company entered among the companies that Slow Food collects in the Super Whites group and represent excellence in the production of white wines in Collio.
