OUR STORY
The story of this plot of land began around the 20s, when Albano Durante and his wife Ida purchased and managed a dozen hectares. Later, between the two world wars, these plots were sold and passed from hand to hand, slowly were bought by the owners who purchased the adjacent lands up to the current surface of about 50 hectares around the 80s.
In 1990 Tenuta Bosco Albano was purchased again by the Durante family that believed in the potentialities of this land and performed a thorough company renovation transforming a business reality of mainly arable land into one with a totally winegrowing vocation.
Today there are about 45 hectares of vineyards, mainly with white grape variety, surrounded by hedges, ditches and woods.
The low plains surrounded by rivers in which the estate is located, were once forests of beech, poplar and oak trees that offered excellent wood that was used in the construction of Venice and later by the Serenissima Republic to achieve its impressive naval fleet.
The soils, rich in marl and clays, have been used since the early twentieth century and up to 1980, in order to extract the raw material for the Rivarotta furnace, still visible today and an example of industrial archeology.
TERRITORY
Equidistant from the foothills of the Alps and the Adriatic Sea, about 45 km far, Tenuta Bosco Albano enjoys a favorable microclimate, thanks to the presence of an underground aquifer, the exposure to sunlight and the gentle slopes, which offer a constant well–being of the vineyards, resulting in a collection of selected and quality grapes; the mostly clayey soil helps to obtain rich and of excellent quality grapes.
PHILOSOPHY
Only our own grapes are processed, in a completely independent production, we chose to obtain a contained yield per hectare, through, if necessary, a decisive reduction of the amount of clusters with short pruning and the practice of manual thinning.
VARIETIES LINE
Our line of varietal wines wants to bring the work of the vineyard in every bottle.
In the process of transformation, making wine exclusively from our grapes, we enhance their quality leaving to the winery the delicate task of being the cradle in which wines develop and mature.
The goal is to bring out the best varietal characteristics typical of the grapes and to produce pleasant to drink wines.
In this line we only produce mono–varietal wines provided by the DOC Grave Friuli, we chose to produce four white and four red wines because we believe that these are the varieties that best express themselves in the area.
RESERVES LINE
Selected grapes, long fermentation and aging in barrels, blends and, then, aging in bottles.
Our reserves are produced in limited quantities and only in the best vintages, the barrel cellar and the aging cellar are underground and allow a refinement in constant temperature and humidity during all months of the year.
A classic method from Pinot Nero and Chardonnay grapes, a Red Wine from a classic Bordeaux blend that celebrates Albano, the founder of the estate, a White Wine obtained from Sauvignon grapes from old vines and a raisin wine from Picolit and Verduzzo grapes: these are our most valuable gems.
MARTINOTTI LINE
Our Martinotti method sparkling wines represent our desire to toast to celebrate joyful moments.
Our fresh and fruity Prosecco Doc is the King of the appetizers and we try to reach with it the utmost pleasure and easiness to drink.
Ida 1903 celebrates the wife of Albano, a long Martinotti method from Chardonnay and Pinot Nero grapes, that rests in an autoclave for at least four months and gives it complexity and elegance while maintaining a great freshness.
BOSCAIA LINE
The Boscaia line was created with the goal of producing a white and a red wine easy to drink that represent the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, then the territory of the company itself.
Both products are obtained from the union of three different varietal wines in different proportions that vary depending on the vintage.
Why Boscaia? The Boscaia term was used in the past to identify a specific area inside the company where in the past there where, precisely, Woods (Boschi).
