Chestnuts and Ribolla, an ancient friulian tradition for Halloween

Friuli has a thousand-year history.
Many of the rites that are still found today in the feast days are based on pagan rites, including, on October 31, the Celtic New Year.

In Celtic culture, New Year’s Eve represented the transition to winter, commemorating the deceased by lighting fires, dressing up and making small offerings. Gestures that have been handed down over the centuries, but that we find even today. Folklore is very often found in what you eat and Friuli is no exception.

In these special days you can taste «pan dai muartz» and «favette» desserts, typical recipes that in the past were real rituals.

But on Halloween we prefer to honor another Friulian tradition: Ribolla and chestnuts.
Boiled chestnuts cooked with laurel or grilled were paired with the must of Ribolla (a trick of the winemakers to taste the wine after fermentation). This custom continues to be maintained every 1 November and the best Ribolla that we at Torre Rosazza recommend you to combine with chestnuts is our Ribolla Brut.