Picolit is the pearl of Friulian winemaking, a precious wine, as rare and precious are the berries that its clusters give to the winemaker. The name Picolit actually derives from the scarcity of the berries, at most about fifteen per cluster. This characteristic is due to the fact that many of the Picolit flowers, because of their particular morphology, cannot produce fruit. As a result, the yield is very low, making Picolit a rare wine, like a pearl indeed. Just think that today its production area isconcentrated in the hills between Udine and Gorizia for a total annual production of only 500 hectoliters.
The history and fame of Picolit are linked to the figure of Count Fabio Asquini from Fagagna, an expert agronomist who in the second half of the 18th century succeeded in promoting and marketing Picolit at the main European courts. In 1785 he reached the record of 4757 bottles of 0.61 liters sold.
In the early 1800s, with the death of Asquini, Picolit began a slow decline. It was revived about a century later thanks to the Perusini Family, who began to restore the ancient vineyard of Picolit producing a wine of the highest quality.
