A fairly recent story but that has certainly led to success his protagonist: Dorino Livon, to make him one of the most established and well–known wine producers in Friuli. A story, however, which has its origins in a passion and a family tradition: love for his land, Friuli, in particular for the extreme edge that represents the last bastion of Italy to Eastern Europe: Collio and the Eastern Hills of Friuli.
In 1964 Dorino Livon purchased the first plot of land in the hills of Collio and then, little by little, added others. In this way, year after year, Livon Farm grew. At the same time, he developed the project to build his own fully equipped winery with the most advanced technology systems.
It dates back to the early eighties, even after the entrance in the company of the two sons of Dorino: Valneo and Tonino, the decision to diversify the production of wines that, while maintaining high quality, could develop two different strategic concepts.
The Cru wines, with limited production, that were obtained from particularly suited vineyards with both agricultural and oenological processings, highly selected, and classic wines, that were destined to develop in an important way, even in quantity, in the mid/high end of the market.
The principles of organization and production at the base of the results obtained were: reducing the amount obtained per hectare, more pruning court, the thickening of the already existing vineyards, the planting of new vineyards with a large number of plants per hectare and the creation of two distinct wineries.
The winery of "Masarotte" was used as the center of the vinification of the whole production of the Cru line and of the maturation in barrels of the white wines from the same line; the winery of "Venc", for the maturation, both in barriques and in barrels, of all red wines.
The following decade, consequently, was characterized by the consolidation of what had been previously set and the estanblishment of Valneo and Tonino as natural receivers of the inheritance of their father.
The company’s following strategic turning point occurred during the five year period from 1992 to 1997 when, realizing that in order to remain competitive in a market where scenarios were rapidly changing, the Livon family decided to buy three farms, two of these, Villa Chiopris and Roncalto Estate, are situated in Friuli, while Borgo Salcetino Farm is located in Tuscany in the Chianti Classico area.
In 2001, the Livon family completed the range of production with the purchase of Col Santo Farm, located in the town of Bevagna (PG) in the DOCG Montefalco. In 2008, after a long period of renovation, the former Locanda Villa Chiopris regained its former glory.
Customers are offered services of B&B, events and tastings, with relaxing moments surrounded by vineyards and a secular park, where on the edge of a beautiful pool you breath a charming fragrance of lavender. A comprehensive strategy for the company, therefore, highly diversified across five different brands, with over 200 hectares of vineyards: Livon, Roncalto Estate, and Villa Chiopris (Friuli) Borgo Salcetino (Tuscany) Col Santo Farm (Umbria) with products intended to cover, with their placements, different market segments.
