The Pecorari family estate sits near the hamlet of San Lorenzo Isontino, 8km to the west of the town of Gorizia in the eponymous province in the north-east of Italy, where the country borders Slovenia. Here, the Dolomites turn towards the Adriatic Sea, offering abundant south-facing slopes which expose vineyards to both the sun and the cooling onshore breezes coming across the alluvial plain.

In 1973, Pierpaolo Pecorari took over the management of the family business and determined to give greater attention to his vines. He was willing to go back to nature, radically overhauling the structure of the vineyards. Pierpaolo wanted to give his business almost philosophical criteria, breaking with the production system then widely used and starting a pioneer’s path of quality, which allowed him to best reflect the characteristics of the land.