Where the land lives.
The most beautiful sensations a wine can convey is being capable of transmitting untouched all the magic of the territory from which it stems.
Scandolera’s prosecco provides a unique expression of the hills of Conegliano Valdobbiadene DOCG: the ones capable of enchanting each day of our work, making us proud of contributing to preserve their majestic beauty.
Costa d’Oro is how the first row of the hills overlooking the Piave plain are called. Right there, in the small village of Colbertaldo, Scandolera’s historic family vineyards are settled.
This is where the name of our Cuvée Brut Costa d’Oro comes from.
Scopri Costa d’Oro
Almost 13 km long, the Golden Coast is characterized by prestigious terroirs where the vineyards receive maximum exposure to sunlight and to the warm winds coming from the south.
These hills offer a unique view of the Conegliano Valdobbiadene DOCG territory, from where it is possible to enjoy a breathtaking panorama, enchanted by the lines and rhythms that like little waves are stretching to the horizon.
The area is full with trails, from where it is possible to discover all the little natural beauties characterizing our hills, ruins of WW1 trenches and marvelous renaissance castles.
This is the marvelous territory where we come from: the one we want to qualify and elevate with our work.
The production area of Prosecco Superiore DOCG is a hilly territory portion of about 8000 hectares, extended over 15 different municipalities.
Two of these, Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, characterize its name: the former as the cultural capital and the latter as the productive heart.
The hills of Conegliano-Valdobbiadene DOCG dominate the top of the Prosecco qualitative pyramid and represent its true historical heart. Here the cultivation of vines is traced back to the Roman ages and has been handed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years.
This very know-how formed and developed over time enclosing the secrets of tradition, represents with its value the essential and distinctive identity of Conegliano Valdobbiadene DOCG Prosecco Superiore.
Created by the forces of nature, the hills of Conegliano Valdobbiadene have been shaped over the centuries by the work of men.
Only with hands winemakers have modeled these hills according to their natural forms, sewing its characteristic weaving of vine rows.
600 working hours/hectare
4 times the ones taken by modern mechanized vine growing.
A daily, hard and heroic action.
This is how the steep slopes are cultivated. This is how Conegliano Valdobbiadene DOCG is created: a handmade wine, from the beginning to to the end.
“To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land use or sea that is representative of a culture or human interaction with the environment”.
Criterion V, Outstanding Universal Value
This conquest is best-suited to qualify the tradition and vocation of our hills: the true heritage of Conegliano-Valdobbiadene. The centuries-old interaction between man and nature has helped to create a unique scenario, which combines landscape and culture with food, wine and history.
The ancient glaciers gradually eroded the Dolomites, pushing the rock debris more and more to the south. Once settled right at the foot of the Prealps they stopped and started melting gradually, pressing the debrids together in a fixed position. This action generated the steep slopes of the Conegliano-Valdobbiadene, whose soils are made up of a heterogeneous composition of sedimentary conglomerates, clayey limestone, marl and sandstone.
The hills are structured in parallel chains with an East-West direction: the southern slope is where the vineyards are located, enjoying the maximum exposure to the sun. The northern slope instead is mainly occupied by woods, natural habitat of the local wildlife.
The peculiar geological history of our hills is at the origin of the different terroirs that characterize the Conegliano-Valdobbiadene territory. The different combinations of sun exposure, slope and soils composition result in several micro-zones, each capable of transferring to the grape unique properties.
Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG is produced from the Glera: a rustic and robust vine, with hazelnut-colored shoots and golden yellow berries. This plant variety loves soils frequently wet by water but fears stagnation.
Three characteristics make the hills of Conegliano Valdobbiadene the ideal territory for growing this vine and producing an elegant wine with fine aromas such as Prosecco DOCG.
Conegliano Valdobbiadene DOCG Prosecco Superiore is the Charmat-Marinotti method sparkling wine which, with its fruity and floral aromas, has conquered the whole world.
Its versatility is the real key to its success: an elegant, naturally harmonious and velvety wine that has revolutionized the modern style of drinking.
Since 2009 Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco, jointly with its twin Asolo Prosecco, has been granted the Denomination of Controlled and Guaranteed Origin (DOCG), the highest Italian wine quality level.
This Prosecco is produced exclusively by grapes from the Conegliano-Valdobbiadene area with a maximum yield of 135 quintals/hectare, granting the perfect equilibrium between quantity and quality.
Prosecco Superiore DOCG is produced in four categories differentiated by the sugar level: Extra Brut, Brut, Extra Dry and Dry, from the lowest to the highest percentage of residual sugar.
