Hearing the name Gravner could come up with a lot of things. Certainly his wines in amphora. But there is so much more. Meanwhile, the territory to which he belongs and with which he is in full symbiosis. We are talking about the wine area between Italy and Slovenia, a borderland between the Gorizia Collio and the Slovenian Collio. Today it is a wonderful place, quiet and full of nature. Gravner, whose name is Josko or Francesco since this is his real name, which the law at the time did not allow because it was a "foreigner", owns 18 hectares in this area, 15 of which are vineyards in Ribolla and Pignolo. The company Agricultural Gravner was born in 1901 with 2,5 hectares of land and a house. Here she lived and learned to work and to know the ground she trod on with her father and uncle, with whom it all began. But it took her a little before she decided to say her about her starting from the 80s, a position that changed markedly in the mid-90s. Francesco Gravner started practicing conventional viticulture but within a decade he decided to get rid of the technology he had bought, the steel tanks and the barriques. He arrived first in '97 to macerate in large wooden vats without any temperature control, then in 2001 to the point of no return that consecrated him to the world: the vinification began in the large underground terracotta amphorae, the classic of Caucasian origin coming from Kakheti area. Read more
