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Azienda
Primosic
The relation between these hills, and its inhabitants, and viticulture, is an essential part of the history of this peculiar region named Collio.
Primosic winemakers are an appropriate demonstration of this liaison.
Carlo Primosic, in the nineteen century, was a supplier of the wine merchants which were selling in Vienna, at that time capital of the Austro Hungarian Empire in which Oslavia was included.
The two world wars changed the rules and shifted the frontiers; Oslavia, found itself at the eastern point of Italy’s border, but, at the same time, right in the center of the productive turmoil that characterized the post war in this far east part of the country.
Primosic was part of this hectic renaissance and Sylvester Primosic, fiery and explosive personality, headed the winery new phase as he still does today, dedicating himself to the vineyards’ management.
Primosic core lay in the deeper respect for land and the environment, pursued by native varieties enhancing.
A pioneer approach which may, now, be seen as obvious but was instead, back in the sixties, disregarded by the most.
Primosic adamantine inclination for Ribolla Gialla, a grape considered "trivial", was, in a way, inconceivable in a setting where the wine epitome was bind to a "noble" belongings aura, as Pinot or the German varietals had had.
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