Zuani
In 2001, Patrizia Felluga set out to build something focused: not another sprawling estate, but a winery devoted to a single idea — one wine, a pure expression of the Collio. The eldest daughter of Marco Felluga and the fifth generation of a storied Friulian winemaking family, she chose the Giasbana hillside above San Floriano del Collio, just meters from the Slovenian border, and started Zuani on her own terms.
The vineyards — now roughly 20 hectares across the estate’s best-exposed slopes, some vines over sixty years old — sit on ponca, the region’s characteristic marl and sandstone, which gives the wines their mineral edge and real capacity to age. Friulano, Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Pinot Grigio, and Ribolla Gialla are hand-harvested and vinified separately, then assembled with one goal in mind: a wine that speaks of this hillside, not any single grape.
Two wines carry that philosophy furthest. Zuani Vigne, fresh and aged in stainless steel, captures the vineyard in its most immediate form. Zuani Riserva, the estate’s flagship, comes from late-harvested fruit aged in French oak with regular lees stirring — structured, age-worthy, and internationally decorated. Alongside them sit two focused single-vineyard whites, Sodevo Ribolla Gialla and Sodevo Pinot Grigio.
Today Patrizia works alongside her children, Antonio and Caterina, continuing a project built on restraint: fewer wines, made with total attention to the place they come from.
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