Cantina Produttori CormÒNs

It was 1968 when, thanks to the foresight of certain winegrowers from Cormòns who wanted to cherish centuries-old traditions – and to passionate winegrowers who, from the outset, maintained that the future of the vine and of wine lay not in fleeting fashions but in the steadfast promotion of their own territory – a winery was founded that stands apart for the quality of its wines and its initiatives: Cantina Produttori Cormòns. More than 90 winegrowing families, aged between 24 and 86, devote themselves with passion and expertise to producing wines that are an authentic expression of the character and tradition of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Cantina Produttori Cormòns has developed a production approach centred on the careful tending of the vineyard, underpinned by the Quaderno di campagna – a detailed code of conduct for its members. Each Member submits their own data to ensure a consistent, high-quality standard for the grapes across all 320 hectares of vineyards. To enhance what winegrowers have been doing in a traditional way for years, the winery has made plant protection more efficient and effective by introducing key innovations, such as installing a network of eight outlying weather stations equipped with sensors to record data on air and soil temperature (degrees Celsius), relative air humidity (%), rainfall (mm), leaf wetness duration (in minutes), solar radiation (in kilocalories per cm²), wind speed (metres per second), and wind direction. The data collected are transmitted in real time to a single control centre located in the winery, where they are processed and stored as hourly averages. The meteorological data collected form a weather archive used to study areas with different microclimates, thereby helping the Members to make well-informed choices when planting new vineyards. The daily data, on the other hand, are used during the summer to monitor the progression of downy mildew infections, which in our area are the most damaging and costly disease to combat (a real-time defence service). This way, the Members take action only when it is truly necessary, thereby reducing the number of final treatments required. Since 1980, the Cantina Produttori Cormòns has been aware of the challenges involved in producing good wines. With this in mind, it has steered the Cooperative’s viticulture towards the latest integrated production methods, underpinned by an efficient technical support service and guided by the principles of integrated pest management.