Which kind of vine-growing and winemaking tradition is there in the area of Gorizia, or rather in the area of the " ISONZO" label of origin? There is no doubt this tradition is quite ancient: in fact, it is well-known that grapevine growing was started in our region at the time of the Romans who settled in the territory of present Friuli, after having founded Aquileia (181 BC) in the surrounding lowland. But it appears that the first inhabitants of these regions - we are now in the realm of legends telling us about the "Eneti", a people mainly dedicated to agriculture - might have introduced grapevines coming from Greece, thus enriching their agricultural activities with this important innovation. Trading various cultivated produces, in fact, must have been very frequent already at that time, as many historians attribute the origin of the name Isonzo, designating the main river to be found in this area, to the Celtic name " Esos ", that of the god of commerce. Among the most ancient writers who wrote about the existence of the famous Gorizia lowland wine, we can quote Pliny the Elder. In his " Natural History ", XIV/6, he mentions the Noble Pucinum Wine. The historian Giuseppe Berini, in his "Survey on the state of the Timavo and its surroundings at the beginning of the Christian era" printed in 1826, says that in the Roman year 990 (237 AD), in order to delay the arrival of the tyrant Maximian, the inhabitants of Aquileia destructed the bridge crossing the Isonzo river in the area of Ronchi. Therefore Maximian substituted it with "empty wine containers put together in a bundle and covered with earth and small branches" that had been collected in the surroundings. Another historian, Basilio Asquini, in his "Geographical description of the Monfalcone territory in Friuli" (Udine, 1741) describes the blossoming of grapevine as follows "... in no other way thought does the marvelous activity of this soil show up, than in the growing of plants, which are well fed and therefore rich and big. They may be seen almost everywhere: Separately, grapevines are such that we believe none thicker or more fertile would Bacchus be able to boast of as existing in his empire............ Besides wines may be kept easily from one year to the other without suffering ANY DAMAGE due to the warm season: as long as they are stored in cool and well managed wine cellars. We must also say that we had the great privilege of discovering that the local people enjoyed these wines themselves, so that they never subjected anything to calculations...... Some 17th century documents mention vines that are still cultivated nowadays: when emperor Leopold I gave the fief of Cormòns to the Locatelli family, in other words the Estate of Angoris, the wines precisely mentioned already at that time were Ribolla, Refosco and Verduzzo, the last two being currently wines with the label of origin " Isonzo ".