THE CONSORZIO TUTELA PROSECCO CONEGLIANO VALDOBBIADENE CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF PROTECTED ORIGIN AND CARRIES THE PROSECCO GRAPE TO THE GRAVE
This year’s Vino in Villa, the annual presentation of Prosecco wines organised by the Consorzio of Producers of Italy’s most famous sparkler in the Province of Treviso, commemorated 40 years of DOC, the equivalent of France’s AOC and established in 1969. This large annual tasting, a stylish affair, not least due to its stunning location, the impressive Castello di Susegana, overlooking at one side the plain of Piave, the source of large volumes of cheap wine, and on the other the hills of Treviso towards the Alps, was also the inaugural event to introduce the highest quality designation, the so called DOCG, to the region just in time before the OCM kicks in this August. (more…)