NATIVE. The Italian word for this noun and adjective is “autoctono” [noun and adjective deriving from the Greek autókhthõn - onos `deriving from its own earth', composed of autós `own’ and khthõn `earth, ground', that is to say, aborigine].
Greeks used to call this way the original people of the country they lived in, if they did not come from other places. The Athenians ‘robbed’ this title pretended to be as ancient as the earth they lived in. When the term native is referred to wine grape it means that the vineyard has been born and grown up in a precise geographic zone, adapting itself to the lands and becoming a whole with them.

Giuseppe Ceschin. When he planted his own vineyards, he wanted also to add another 8 typical native varieties.

An extraordinarily fertile land and 8 great promises: Tocai Friulano, Ribolla Gialla, Picolit, Verduzzo Friulano, Pignolo, Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso, Schioppettino, Tazzelenghe.

These wine grapes enclose in their grapes an ancient taste and the history of a land written by nature itself.

They are voices echoing from the past, in a bottle, proud to be pages of history.


This is the native vineyard. Its fascination lies in its sincerity, in its purity.

Out of time and fashions.