THE FIOR D’ARANCIO GRAPE
The Fior d’Arancio grape of the Euganean Hills is the great passion of the Borin family; as long ago as the 1960s, when the Borins began producing wine, it was the main variety cultivated in the company’s vineyards.
In the top vintages of the following decade, the Borins started drying their best grapes of this cultivar in order to produce an intensely flavoured dessert wine.
Starting in the ’80s they studied – working together with the University of Padua – new winemaking techniques for making an elegant sweet sparkling wine.
In the early years of the new millennium, the family’s experiments in the winery at Monticelli led to the release of a dry Fior d’Arancio: an innovative idea that obtained D.O.C.G. recognition in 2010.
