Territory & Vineyards

A magical land where a myriad of rolling hills are home to thousands of vines.
A unique landscape, whose beauty is demonstrated by its recent inclusion as a World Heritage Site (Unesco). Here, nature reigns supreme and large expanses of vine rows follow one another as far as the eye can see, immersed in a pleasant silence. These places speak to us, inviting us to move more slowly and more respectfully towards the environment that surrounds us. In these places, vines become the protagonists of our lives.
The production area of ​​our grapes extends over a surface area of ​​200 hectares located between the provinces of Treviso and Pordenone. The Prosecco hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, along which most of our vines extend, have become the 55th Italian “World Heritage” site.

A land whose beauty speaks for itself: thousands of hectares that extend in an east-west direction, from Vittorio Veneto to Valdobbiadene. A landscape characterized by hill ridges, ciglioni (small vineyards on narrow grassy terraces), forests, villages and crops. For centuries this harsh terrain has been shaped and adapted by man, creating a particular checkerboard landscape, formed by rows of vines parallel and vertical to the slope.

• Still Prosecco, characterized by a minimum alcohol content of 10.5% vol. and a pressure of less than 1 bar
• Frizzante Prosecco, characterized by a minimum alcohol content of 10.5% vol. and a pressure between 1 and 2.5 bar
• Spumante Prosecco, characterized by a minimum alcohol content of 11% vol. and a pressure greater than 3 bar

• EXTRA BRUT when the sugar content is less than 8 g/litre
• BRUT when the sugar content is less than 12 g/litre
• EXTRA DRY when the sugar content is between 12 and 17 g/litre
• DRY when the sugar content is between 17 and 32 g/litre
• DEMI-SEC when the sugar content is between 32 and 50 g/litre

The territory is a guarantee of Superiority. The production area is the historical one, limited to the 15 hilly municipalities between the two production capitals of Conegliano-Valdobbiadene; a dimension that testifies to the preciousness of the product. Specifically, therefore, the hilly territory of the municipalities of Conegliano, San Vendemiano, Colle Umberto, Vittorio Veneto, Tarzo, Cison di Valmarino, Follina, Miano, Valdobbiadene, Vidor, Farra di Soligo, Pieve di Soligo, San Pietro di Feletto, Refrontolo and Susegana, in the province of Treviso.

Out of a surface area of ​​20,000 hectares, 7,000 are dedicated to vineyards cultivated by 3,000 families of winemakers, vinified by 454 wineries and 183 sparkling wine houses that produce and sell it all over the world.

The vines are tended by hand, with slopes that can reach 70%. the wine is produced with a minimum of 85% of Glera grapes and, for a maximum of 15%, of Verdiso, Bianchetta, Perera, Glera lunga grapes, present for centuries in the hills of Conegliano-Valdobbiadene. For the sparkling wine, Pinots and Chardonnay grapes can also be used. The production of the Docg is 135 quintals/ha.

• “Rive” where production is reduced to 130 quintals/ha, with the obligation to manually harvest the grapes and indicate the vintage. (With the introduction of “Rive”, reserved for sparkling wines, the possibility of highlighting the name of the municipality or hamlet where the grapes originated on the label was also provided for. The term “Rive”, in local dialect, indicates vineyards located on steep terrain, and has the purpose of highlighting the vocation and the many differences that the various locations of the denomination express.)
• “Cartizze”, the vineyard yield is 120 quintals/ha and the grapes come from the territory of the San Pietro di Barbozza hamlet.

The production area is that of the 9 provinces belonging to the Denomination (Treviso, Vicenza, Udine, Pordenone, Trieste, Belluno, Venice, Padua, Gorizia) but it also gives the possibility of bottling to producers outside the cultivation area who demonstrate that they have already bottled this wine for at least 5 years. The new DOC also provides for the possibility of specifying the area of ​​origin of the grapes on the label only for the provinces of Treviso (95 municipalities) and Trieste. The new DOC provides, in the assembly of the grapes, a minimum of 85% of Glera variety, and a maximum of 15% of minor varieties and Pinots and Chardonnay. The expected yield in the vineyard is 180 quintals/ha.

The origins of Prosecco date back to Roman times, around the 2nd century BC in the Friulian lands or rather from a small town called Prosecco. It is said that Augustus’ wife, Livia, loved drinking Puxinum “Pucino” so much that the empress considered it the secret of her beauty and eternal youth.

Unfortunately at the time no one believed in the potential of this wine so production was replaced with other vines and moved fortunately for us to the hills of Conegliano Valdobbiadene and it is precisely there that it found the ideal environment to become an excellent quality wine.

In 1868 Antonio Carpenè, together with his partners Caccianiga, Malvolti and Vianello, founded the “Società Enologica Trevigiana”, and it is with the birth of this institution that Prosecco began to be appreciated and identified as a wine to be promoted, spread and enhanced.

The Conegliano Valdobbiadene sparkling wine production method was created within the School, developed by Antonio Carpenè, who studied how to referment the wine together with sugar and yeasts in an autoclave for at least 30 days.

The School has had among its most famous teachers, figures of the highest international prestige such as Arturo Marescalchi, Giovanni Dalmasso and Luigi Manzoni who laid the foundations for modern viticultural and oenological science.

Very important to remember is certainly Professor Manzoni who created those crosses that pass down his name, linked to excellent wines and Professor Tullio de Rosa whose books have been studied by entire generations.

In 1923, Professors Giusti and Dalmasso, seeing the need on the part of producers for scientific research capable of solving the daily problems of winemakers, founded the Experimental Station of Viticulture and Oenology of Conegliano, which became CRA – Research Center for Viticulture in 2004.

In 1962, 11 producers finally formed the Consortium for the Protection of Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene and in 1969 the recognition of the Controlled Designation of Origin for Prosecco produced in 15 municipalities arrived.

In 1966, the first Italian wine route, the Strada del Prosecco, was inaugurated.

From 1962 to 2009, Prosecco has always been DOC for the territory included in the hills of Conegliano Valdobbiadene and IGT in the plains.

Over the years, becoming a hugely successful wine and copied in various parts of the world, a legislative regulation was decided to limit the, it became necessary to reconnect the Venetian production with the name of the original location of Prosecco, at the same time restoring the ancient names – “Glera” and “Glera lungo” – of the vines. It was therefore decided to expand to a contiguous production area much larger than the previous one, also including some provinces in which Prosecco had never been produced or produced in very limited quantities (Venice, Padua, Belluno) or where production had practically ceased for centuries (Trieste, Gorizia, Udine), for a total of 500 municipalities. The process was concluded on 17 July 2009, decreeing the recognition of the DOC “Prosecco”, the two DOCGs “Conegliano Valdobbiadene – Prosecco” and “Colli Asolani – Prosecco” and the related production regulations.

All DOCG wines prominently display on the label the name of the Denomination “Conegliano-Valdobbiadene” followed by Prosecco Superiore, in the case of sparkling wine.
Sparkling wine can simply display on the label the name of the main Denomination Conegliano-Valdobbiadene or Conegliano or Valdobbiadene.