Pignolo Eremita

Legend has it that in the year 800 the hermit Alemanno settled on the Rosazzo hill for a spiritual retreat. About two hundred years later, in the same place, the Augustinians taught the local populations to cultivate the land and, still in the same place, the first traces of the Pignolo vine were found, dating back to the late 18th century. Known as Pignul in Friulian dialect, fragile with low productivity, it was on the verge of extinction in the late 19th century, but was later rediscovered and recovered – once again, at Rosazzo. The confident, soulful grapes of Eremita are wild at heart, with a historical value branded on the memory of our area.