Il Carpino
With its characterful and full-bodied orange wines, the Friulian winery Il Carpino is among the beautiful artisanal family-run realities of Collio Goriziano, close to the border with Slovenia. Franco Sosol and his wife Anna founded the estate in 1987 in San Floriano del Collio together with Anna's father, Silvano, who at the end of the 1970s purchased the first vineyards, giving up his activity as a fruit and vegetable trader. Today, the couple is assisted by their children Naike and Manuel, forming a close-knit family team that directly oversees every phase of the production process, from the vineyard to the final marketing.
The vineyards of the Il Carpino estate extend over about 15 hectares, planted with the indigenous varieties Ribolla Gialla, Malvasia Istriana, and Friulano, alongside international grapes that have now become part of Friulian tradition, such as Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon. By applying environmentally friendly viticulture, the Sosol family cultivates vines that grow on the so-called “ponca”, type of soil consisting of an alternation of marls and sandstones. The production of orange wines consists of prolonged macerations on the skins in open Slavonian oak vats, where alcoholic fermentation occurs thanks to only indigenous yeasts and is followed by the complete and spontaneous malolactic fermentation. The subsequent aging phase takes place in large Slavonian oak barrels, French oak barriques, and stainless steel tanks. The most classic whites of the ‘Vigna Runc’ line, produced from the grapes of the younger vineyards, are instead processed entirely in steel, with only a very brief pre-fermentation maceration on the skins.
As mentioned, the production of the Il Carpino winery is divided into the selection ‘Vini Macerati Il Carpino’, the most precious and complex, and the ‘Vigna Runc’ range, white wines of greater immediacy. Although very different from each other, the interpretations of both lines reflect the connection to the Collio territory that is characteristic of the Sosol family.
With its characterful and full-bodied orange wines, the Friulian winery Il Carpino is among the beautiful artisanal family-run realities of Collio Goriziano, close to the border with Slovenia. Franco Sosol and his wife Anna founded the estate in 1987 in San Floriano del Collio together with Anna's father, Silvano, who at the end of the 1970s purchased the first vineyards, giving up his activity as a fruit and vegetable trader. Today, the couple is assisted by their children Naike and Manuel, forming a close-knit family team that directly oversees every phase of the production process, from the vineyard to the final marketing.
The vineyards of the Il Carpino estate extend over about 15 hectares, planted with the indigenous varieties Ribolla Gialla, Malvasia Istriana, and Friulano, alongside international grapes that have now become part of Friulian tradition, such as Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon. By applying environmentally friendly viticulture, the Sosol family cultivates vines that grow on the so-called “ponca”, type of soil consisting of an alternation of marls and sandstones. The production of orange wines consists of prolonged macerations on the skins in open Slavonian oak vats, where alcoholic fermentation occurs thanks to only indigenous yeasts and is followed by the complete and spontaneous malolactic fermentation. The subsequent aging phase takes place in large Slavonian oak barrels, French oak barriques, and stainless steel tanks. The most classic whites of the ‘Vigna Runc’ line, produced from the grapes of the younger vineyards, are instead processed entirely in steel, with only a very brief pre-fermentation maceration on the skins.
As mentioned, the production of the Il Carpino winery is divided into the selection ‘Vini Macerati Il Carpino’, the most precious and complex, and the ‘Vigna Runc’ range, white wines of greater immediacy. Although very different from each other, the interpretations of both lines reflect the connection to the Collio territory that is characteristic of the Sosol family.
