It’s not only the price difference that is attractive but the light dryness with just a hint of fruit.
The wine is made from the Prosecco grape also known as Glera, a white variety of Vitis vinifera of Slovenian and Italian origin, possibly from the traditionally Slovenian-populated village of Prosecco on the Slovenia-Italy border, now in Italy.
The bubbles are produced by use of the Charmat Method not the more expensive Méthode Champenoise or Méthode traditionnelle
The Charmat Method is a way of making sparkling wine where the secondary fermentation ie. creating the bubbles takes place in large, pressurised stainless-steel tanks instead of individual bottles.
It involves adding sugar and yeast to a base wine ie. a previously fermented wine, in a sealed tank, trapping the CO2 for effervescence, and then filtering and bottling under pressure.
This results in fresh, lively bubbles and prominent fruit flavours.
The wine is very popular in Australia and is made from locally grown Prosecco grapes.
The first commercial vineyard in Australia was planted in 1999 and its first vintage was produced in 2004. It is now grown across 20 Australian wine regions.
The Charmat Method is a way of making sparkling wine where the secondary fermentation ie. creating the bubbles takes place in large, pressurised stainless-steel tanks instead of individual bottles.
It involves adding sugar and yeast to a base wine ie. a previously fermented wine, in a sealed tank, trapping the CO2 for effervescence, and then filtering and bottling under pressure.
This results in fresh, lively bubbles and prominent fruit flavours.
The wine is very popular in Australia and is made from locally grown Prosecco grapes.
The first commercial vineyard in Australia was planted in 1999 and its first vintage was produced in 2004. It is now grown across 20 Australian wine regions.
The Italians are not happy that our locally produced wine is called Prosecco.
The UE renamed Prosecco to Glera in 2009 to make room for the protection of ‘Prosecco’ as the name of the Italian geographically protected wine as in the map above.
The change was supposed to reduce the ability of other producers (in Italy and overseas) to label sparkling wines made elsewhere as Prosecco by using the grape variety's name.
In 2013, the Australian wine industry successfully challenged an EU application to protect Prosecco as a GI in Australia, with Australian Deputy Registrar of Trademarks verifying that Prosecco is a recognised grape variety in Australia.
The name change has been rejected by wine producers outside Italy in addition to Australia.
Having said that we only drink Italian Prosecco.We have tried at least 10 from the DOGC and DOC areas of the region.
The one we have settled on is above.
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