The producer
Cantina Vigna Verde is not a family domaine but a collective enterprise: entrepreneurs and farmers across the northeastern Italian plains have pooled more than 600 hectares of vineyards under one cellar in Fiume Veneto, Pordenone province, since 1976. The territory reaches from the alluvial flatlands near the Venetian lagoon to the gravel and moraine deposits at the foot of the Prealps, covering a range of growing conditions that all flow into a single production facility. The house style across the range is fruity, lightly sweet, and built for aperitif occasions: low in phenolic weight, clean on the finish, and consistent across tiers.
The portfolio runs from Prosecco Superiore DOCG, where Glera is the mandated primary grape and acacia honey aromas and evanescent foam define the house register, down to TiCa Secco, a Vino Frizzante built from a northern Italian white grape variety with centuries of regional cultivation. TiCa Secco carries lower pressure than the full sparkling range, giving fine, soft bubbles rather than persistent mousse, and opens with yellow pear, honeydew melon, white flowers, and citrus. In 2023 it reached Systembolaget, the Swedish state retail system, as the winery's deliberate move into Nordic export markets under a label designed to travel without the Prosecco appellation name attached.
Known for
Prosecco Superiore DOCG, Prosecco DOC, TiCa Secco (Vino Frizzante)
Notable facts
- Founded in 1976 as a collective of entrepreneurs and farmers pooling land and production across the Friulian plain.
- Manages more than 600 hectares of vineyards spanning from the Venetian lagoon to the foothills of the Prealps.
- Based in Fiume Veneto, Pordenone province, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northeastern Italy.
- TiCa Secco, the winery's semi-sparkling frizzante label, entered the Swedish Systembolaget listing in 2023 as a dedicated export brand.
- The range covers Prosecco Superiore DOCG, Prosecco DOC, Gran Cuvée Extra Dry spumante, and TiCa Secco, all built around a fruity, lightly sweet aperitif style.
From the atlas
Cantina Vigna Verde Srl
At A Glance
Location: Fiume Veneto, Pordenone province, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northeastern Italy Vineyards: 600+ hectares, collective ownership Appellations: Prosecco Superiore DOCG, Prosecco DOC Speciality: Prosecco DOCG and DOC, Gran Cuvée Extra Dry, TiCa Secco (Vino Frizzante) Founded: 1976
The Producer
Cantina Vigna Verde is not a family domaine or a single estate but a collective enterprise. Entrepreneurs and farmers across the northeastern Italian plains have pooled more than 600 hectares of vineyards under one cellar operation since 1976, producing sparkling wine at a scale that most individual growers in this corridor cannot match. The base is Fiume Veneto, a town in the Pordenone province on the Friuli-Venezia Giulia side of the border with Veneto. From there the vineyards reach outward in both directions: west toward the Venetian lagoon, north toward the Prealps.
The range runs from Prosecco Superiore DOCG at the top to the semi-sparkling frizzante TiCa Secco at the accessible end. All four labelled wines share a house character: fruity, lightly sweet, low in phenolic weight, and built for aperitif occasions rather than the dinner table. TiCa Secco, the youngest label in the portfolio, now reaches export markets including Sweden through Systembolaget, the Nordic state retail system.
Place
Fiume Veneto sits on the Friulian plain, a flat agricultural corridor compressed between the Adriatic coastline to the south and the first foothills of the Dolomites to the north. The Prealps act as a cold-air source, drawing temperature swings through the growing season that slow ripening and hold acidity in the grapes. Closer to the Venetian lagoon, maritime air moderates overnight temperatures further. Across that gradient, more than 600 hectares of vineyard work within meaningfully different growing conditions, though the winery does not fractionate these into sub-regional bottlings.
The Prosecco DOCG label signals Valdobbiadene Conegliano DOCG rules, where Glera is the mandated primary grape. The DOC tier covers a wider zone that extends across the Friuli plains and into parts of the region where Cantina Vigna Verde operates. Extra Dry is the house style across both tiers: a legal sweetness category sitting between Brut and Dry, typically 12 to 17 grams of residual sugar per litre, which in practice reads as light sweetness balanced by the grape's natural acidity rather than as overt confection.
Soil And Site
The vineyard territory spans from the coastal alluvial soils near the Venetian lagoon to the glacial moraine and gravel deposits that accumulate at the base of the Prealps. Alluvial plains dominate the central section, with river-deposited soils that drain well and warm quickly after rain. Closer to the foothills, gravel content increases and the soils thin. Both zones are suitable for white grape cultivation, though the flat plain is better suited to volume and consistency than to the kind of concentrated flavour that hill-grown parcels in the Valdobbiadene heartland can deliver.
Story
Cantina Vigna Verde began its development in 1976, when a group of farmers and entrepreneurs in the Pordenone area decided to build a shared production facility rather than sell grapes or bulk wine to larger operations. The collective model allowed smaller landowners to keep their vineyards while accessing the winemaking equipment and market reach that individual growers rarely command alone. Over five decades the membership has held and the vineyard base has grown to more than 600 hectares.
The more recent chapter is TiCa Secco, a semi-sparkling white frizzante launched as a separate brand from the Prosecco appellation wines. Where the DOCG and DOC labels carry the weight of Italian sparkling wine classification, TiCa Secco steps away from appellation hierarchy entirely and positions itself as a contemporary aperitif label. Its listing on Systembolaget in 2023 marked the winery's deliberate move into Nordic export markets, choosing a format and brand aimed at buyers who may not follow Prosecco appellation distinctions but are drawn to light, fruity, semi-sparkling whites at accessible price points.
Vineyards And Cellar
The collective model means farming decisions are distributed across the membership. The winery processes fruit from more than 600 hectares grown by different hands on soils and elevations that vary across the lagoon-to-Prealps gradient. A central cellar in Fiume Veneto receives and vinifies the crop. Modern temperature-controlled fermentation equipment allows the winery to manage aromatic freshness across a large volume, which matters for a range built on light, fruity character rather than extraction or oak influence.
TiCa Secco is produced as a Vino Frizzante, the Italian classification for semi-sparkling wines that carry lower pressure than a Spumante. The fine bubble character noted in the wine comes from secondary carbonation at lower levels than full sparkling production, giving a soft effervescence rather than the persistent mousse of a Prosecco DOCG. Fermentation method and vessel details are not confirmed in sourced material.
Wines
The Cantina Vigna Verde range runs across four documented labels, each occupying a distinct position in the sparkling and semi-sparkling spectrum.
Prosecco Superiore Extra Dry (DOCG) sits at the top. Glera is the mandated primary grape under Valdobbiadene Conegliano DOCG rules. The wine opens with acacia honey aromas and an abundant, evanescent foam, and the palate is fresh, fruity, and lightly sweet with the lift that cold-climate Glera delivers when the crop is well-managed. The Extra Dry style leaves enough residual sweetness to cushion the acidity without tipping into fruit-salad sweetness.
Prosecco Extra Dry (DOC) follows a similar house character but draws from the broader DOC zone rather than the Superiore hillside classification. Delicate and particularly fruity, it is the everyday tier: lighter in hierarchy but consistent in house style.
Gran Cuvée Extra Dry (Spumante) sits outside the Prosecco appellation framework as a blended sparkling wine. The wine is smooth and pleasantly acidulous, with an intensely fruity palate that reads similarly to the Prosecco range but carries a different label position. It is the winery's own-blend sparkling, unconstrained by Glera-dominated appellation rules.
TiCa Secco (Vino Frizzante) is the semi-sparkling label. Made from a white grape variety with centuries of cultivation in northern Italy, the wine runs at lower pressure than the full sparkling range. Yellow pear, honeydew melon, white flowers, and citrus lift off the glass; the palate is fruity and youthful with soft sweetness and fine, gentle bubbles that dissolve rather than persist.
In The Glass
Across the DOCG and DOC Proseccos the aroma line is fruit-forward and floral, with acacia honey and ripe orchard fruit rising from the glass on the foam. In the mouth the Extra Dry sweetness sits against the grape's natural acidity: not cloying, but clearly off-dry, with the freshness holding through a short, clean finish. The Gran Cuvée adds a degree of smoothness and a lightly acidulous quality, with an intensely fruity palate.
TiCa Secco reads differently. The bubbles are fine and soft rather than persistent, and the wine opens cooler and quieter in the glass. Pear and melon come first, then a thread of white flowers and a citrus note underneath. The sweetness is forward but light, and the finish is brief and clean. At 8 to 10 degrees the aromas stay precise and the softness of the frizzante format reads as gentle rather than flat.
A Bottle To Understand It
TiCa Secco is the right first bottle. It is a Vino Frizzante, semi-sparkling at lower pressure than the full Prosecco range, made from a northern Italian white grape variety with centuries of regional history. In the glass it gives yellow pear, honeydew melon, white flowers, and a citrus line, with fine bubbles that effervesce softly and a sweetness that stays light rather than heavy. Serve it at 8 to 10 degrees as an aperitif, or alongside seafood, vegetables, or dishes with spice and acidity. It is the winery's most clearly profiled wine, accessible without appellation background knowledge, and a good introduction to the house style before moving into the Prosecco DOCG tier.
Anecdote
In autumn 2023, TiCa Secco appeared on the Systembolaget listing for the first time, placed in the Swedish state retail system alongside thousands of other wines competing for attention on the same grid. For a winery that had built its reputation on Prosecco appellations and a collective farming model rooted in the Friulian plains, the listing was a deliberate move in a new direction. The label was designed to travel without the Prosecco name attached. The format was frizzante rather than spumante, lower pressure and softer on the palate. The serving guidance pointed toward spicy Asian-seasoned seafood, a food-pairing world removed from the Italian aperitivo tables where Prosecco has its home. The brand name, TiCa, carried no Italian wine-classification signal at all. The wine landed on Swedish shelves as something lighter, more modern in positioning, and aimed at buyers who follow style over appellation. That choice is now on the label, and the Systembolaget listing is still there.
Final Word
Cantina Vigna Verde is a large-scale collective winery that has run continuously on the Friulian plain since 1976, drawing on more than 600 hectares of vineyard between the Venetian lagoon and the Prealps. Its Prosecco DOCG and DOC wines follow the house style: fruity, lightly sweet, and designed for aperitif drinking. TiCa Secco, the semi-sparkling frizzante label, takes the same light, fruit-forward approach into a contemporary export format. The winery's value is in volume, consistency, and range breadth rather than in single-parcel or artisan production.
Sources
- https://www.cantinavignaverde.it/en/
- https://www.cantinavignaverde.it/en/wines/
- https://ticawine.se/tica-secco/
- https://www.cantinavignaverde.it/en/vineyards/
- https://www.systembolaget.se/produkt/vin/tica-secco-7342814/