Cantina Girlan
Cantina Girlan was founded in 1923 in an ancient farmstead from the 16th century. Back then 24 winegrowers laid the foundation stones of what was later to become the winery we see today. The walls, steeped in ancient tradition, and the labyrinthine corridors of the cellar harbour the secrets of state-of-the-art winemaking technology and hold the ideal conditions for ageing our wines.
Today, about 200 greatly committed and motivated winegrowers and
their families farm an area covering about 230 hectares of vineyards in
the best production areas of Oltradige and Bassa Atesina. Our enologist,
Gerhard Kofler, keeps in close personal contact with the winegrowers
and provides his professional advice during the growing season. This
beneficial exchange of expertise sets the foundations for producing
highest quality wines.
We pursue the following main objectives:
we seek, on one hand, to showcase and promote the historic local grape
varieties and on the other, to create impressive characterful wines
using international grape varieties yet keeping them closely connected
to the land. This is all achieved while respecting nature's flow and
rhythms.
