AZ. AGR. ZUCCHETTO GRAZIANO

In Sesto al Reghena, a municipality in Pordenone on the border between Friuli and Veneto, Graziano Zucchetto cultivates vineyards across two denominations with opposing grape types. The first is Lison DOCG, where Tai and other white grape varieties find in the Friulian soils the basis for crisp white wines, with at least 12.0% alcohol and a taut, continental profile. The second leads the company to the red wine side: Piave Malanotte DOCG demands patience, as the Raboso grapes require long aging, at least thirty-six months, to convert their tannic exuberance into structure and complexity. Between these two extremes, the immediate white and the long-aged red, lies a border territory where the administrative geography of Veneto-Friuli overlaps with that of viticulture. Zucchetto precisely inhabits this hinge, measuring his work by the distance separating the ready freshness of Lison from the slow maturation of Malanotte, and making that distance the hallmark of his production between the provinces of Pordenone and Treviso.

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