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Collio
The Collio (Cuei in friulano, Brda in sloveno) is a hilly geografic area that lays out from the Isonzo River, in norther-east Italy and the Iudro River in Slovenia.
All togehter it is about 1500 hectars of vineyard of specialised colture.
The territory extends in a series of hills that run from east to west, allowing a great surface of land to be easily exposed to the sun and ideal for a high quality viticulture.
The hight goes from 60 m to 270 m a.s.l.
Vinecolture in the are goes back to 238 b.C..
Modern vineculture, instead, starts in the second half of 1800, thanks to Teodoro Latour, who introduced fine French and German wine grapes. In 1900 it is reported that about 90% of the wine produced in Collio was white,
At the end of World War II Collio was split between the Italian Republic and the Yugoslavian Federal Republic, giving so birth to the Italian Collio and the Slovenian Brda. Because of this division, a territory that has always been united for its history, its culture and its traditions, not only has been separated and the two parts have gone through different evolutive paths, but it has broken the unity of different farms that found themselves with the buildings and the lands in two different countries creating great difficulties.
Today Collio/Brda still produces mainly whites, but it also produces exceptional reds.