A Bio District was created for the first time in our region, in the Colli Orientali del Friuli, in the Gramogliano area. It stems from the need to bring together in a distinct geographical area activities - which, as the word implies - deal with, use, promote or otherwise produce organic products.
What distinguishes each district is its homogeneity of offer, involving all economic and institutional activities, thus including farmers, producers, tourist operators, accommodation facilities and administrations, both public and private, where the organic model, with its short supply chain, is promoted and becomes a system.
Health comes first, genuine products - untreated - the fruit of a land still unknown to most, where breeding and cultivation methods still follow ancient traditions that in this borderland have not been eroded by modernity and driven cultivation.
A genuine land... like its inhabitants, frank and direct, where guests are always welcome.
The Perusini winery is among the 50 happy few listed by Veronelli in the Gotha of historic Italian winemakers.
In fact, in the last century, when the fashion for French wines was still reigning, Giacomo Perusini, grandfather of the current owner began the selection and preservation of a number of indigenous vines (Picolit in particular).
After his premature death in the First World War, his work was continued by his wife Giuseppina Perusini Antonini, a painter and writer, but also a skilled businesswoman, who began the relaunch of Friulian wines on the national and international market. His son Gaetano, a professor at the University of Trieste, continued and expanded research into agriculture and traditional grape varieties, while his other son Giampaolo continued the selection of Ribolla Gialla in particular.
Now the castle of Rocca Bernarda, the family's historic seat, has passed by bequest of Gaetano Perusini to the Order of Malta together with part of the estate, but the family tradition continues in the part remaining on the hill of Gramogliano lapped by the Judrio river until 1918, the border between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
Today, Giampaolo's daughter Teresa runs the company. Like her uncle and sister, she is an art historian but also a passionate winemaker. She is now helped in the management of the winery by her husband Giacomo and sons Carlo, Tommaso and Michele. Thus the family tradition continues on the Gramogliano hill known for centuries, like that of Rosazzo and della Rocca, as the cru hors classe of the Colli Orientali del Friuli.