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Italy's everyday yes — the bubbly that refuses to take itself as seriously as champagne
means A light, sparkling Italian white wine made mainly from the Glera grape, typically in Italy's northeast.
from Named for Prosecco, a village near Trieste in northeastern Italy, where the grape was long grown — so the wine carries its hometown on the label. The grape itself was once called Prosecco too, but in 2009 Italian authorities renamed it Glera and tied the word 'Prosecco' to the protected place, a clever move to stop other countries from borrowing the name. The village name is older and murkier — likely from a Slovene root meaning something like 'a clearing in the woods,' a nod to the Slavic-Italian borderland where it sits.
- grape
- Made mostly from Glera grapes, not Champagne varieties
- tank method
- Fermented in steel tanks, not bottles, for speed
- name protected
- Named for a village near Trieste, Italy
- bubble pressure
- Lighter fizz than champagne, around half the pressure
- global thirst
- Outsells champagne by hundreds of millions of bottles
conegliano valdobbiadene — unesco world heritage site in northeast italy, heart of prosecco production since medieval times
prosecco di treviso doc — larger production zone in treviso province, italy, established 1969 with lower elevation requirements