Vie di Romans

Vie di Romans belongs to the Gallo family, who have worked vines here for more than a century. Gianfranco Gallo has run the estate since 1978, the year of its first bottling under its own label. The 60 hectares are in Mariano del Friuli, in the Friuli Isonzo DOC, on a broad terrace on the north bank of the Isonzo near the Slovenian border. The soils are gravelly and reddish with iron, and the cool Bora wind from Slovenia keeps the grapes ripening slowly.

Each vineyard is fermented on its own, and the label names both the grape and the vineyard, taken from old land survey maps and local place names. Dessimis is Pinot Grigio. Piere and Vieris are both Sauvignon Blanc, one mostly from Italian clones and the other from French ones.

Since the 1990 vintage the family has held its whites back and released them two years after the harvest.