Ribolla Gialla

During the 14th century, the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio listed indulgence of Ribolla wines as one of the sins of gluttony in his diatribe on the subject.

When the Duke of Austria, Leopold III, established reign over Trieste one of his stipulations was that the city supply him each year with 100 urns of the region's best Ribolla wine.

By the 1990s less than 1% of all white Friuli wines created under a Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) designation contained Ribolla.

By the turn of the 21st century, international interest in the wines of the Friuli Venezia Giulia had led to an increase in plantings of the grape.

[2] Today it has a more prominent roles in the white DOC wines of Colli Orientali del Friuli and Collio Goriziano.