Vines climb steep slopes across the Treviso hills, where altitude, exposure and soil can change over a short distance. Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG covers fifteen communes and centres on Glera. DOCG is an Italian designation defining origin and production rules. Nearby Asolo has a Prosecco DOCG of its own. Both names locate the grapes in a particular stretch of hill country.
Rive identifies a commune; Cartizze names a smaller subzone
Names to know
Rive means the grapes came from one commune or part of a commune within Conegliano Valdobbiadene. The grapes are harvested by hand and the vintage appears on the label. Cartizze is a much smaller subzone near Valdobbiadene. Sweetness is a separate matter: Extra Brut, Brut, Extra Dry and Dry contain increasing amounts of residual sugar, the sugar in the finished wine. The awkward one is Extra Dry, which is sweeter than Brut.
Sweetness and bottle refermentation change the wine too
What changes here
Most bottles are sparkling, with freshness, fruit and gentle bubbles at the centre. Sweetness can shift the balance as much as the place name, so two Proseccos may feel quite different even when both come from the hills. Examples whose second fermentation happens in the bottle can have yeast and bread-crust notes. A Rive bottling, by contrast, tells you that the grapes came from a more precise origin.
Choose a sweetness level, then compare origins
First bottle
Choose Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore Brut if you want a drier sparkling wine from the Treviso hills. For a comparison of origins, look for a Rive bottling, which names one commune or part of one, or an Asolo Prosecco from the separate hill appellation. Keep the sweetness category similar so that differences in sugar do not dominate the comparison. Cartizze names the small subzone near Valdobbiadene; check its sweetness category too.
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Producers in Prosecco — Conegliano-Valdobbiadene & Asolo (Treviso hills)
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- Bisol Desiderio & Figli Azienda AgricolaBisol has been making wine in Valdobbiadene since 1542, and their Crede was among the first brut Prosecco Superiore wines in the zone's history.
- Villa SandiTreviso-based Prosecco house operating from a restored 1622 Palladian villa, with Cartizze La Rivetta among the most consistently awarded single-cru Glera wines in the DOCG.
- Azienda Agricola MalibrànThree-generation family estate in Susegana farming 14 hectares of clay-soil Glera and producing both Charmat and ancestral-method col fondo Prosecco Superiore DOCG, with a flagship Rive di Santa Maria di Feletto Extra Brut and one of the region's longest-running col fondo bottlings.
- La Vigna di SarahProsecco estate on Col di Luna hill in Vittorio Veneto, founded by Sarah Dei Tos in 2010 and known for Grappoli di Luna, the first night-harvested Prosecco DOCG.
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- Azienda agricola BuffonFamily-run Prosecco estate in Conegliano's DOCG hills, with brothers Quirino and Cleris personally overseeing every stage from vine to bottle.
- Azienda Agricola Le ManzaneThird-generation family estate in the Prosecco Superiore hills of Conegliano Valdobbiadene, farming over 70 hectares of Glera on steep morainic slopes and producing approximately one million bottles annually for over 30 countries.
- Azienda Agricola MARSURET Soc. Agr. s.sMarsuret is a Valdobbiadene family estate founded in 1936, with hand-farmed vineyards across seven sub-zones of the Prosecco Superiore DOCG including the grand cru hill of Cartizze.
- Cantina Colli del SoligoA 600-member cooperative in Pieve di Soligo producing Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG and Prosecco DOC from 1,200 hectares of Treviso hillside vineyards, with a portfolio that runs from the approachable Col de Mez Extra Dry to the drier, slower-fermented Solicum Cuvée Brut.
- Cantine Conte CollaltoFamily-owned estate in Susegana farming 150 hectares in Prosecco DOCG territory, with estate-only Glera for sparkling wine and rare indigenous Wildbacher and Verdiso.
- Cantine GregolettoFamily winery in Premaor di Miane farming 18 hillside hectares in the Conegliano Valdobbiadene DOCG, making Prosecco Superiore, a cloudy col fondo frizzante on its lees, and one of the last commercial Verdiso wines in the Veneto.
- Cantine Umberto Bortolotti srlA three-generation family house in Valdobbiadene, founded in 1947 by the trained enologist who co-founded the Prosecco Confraternity, the Protection Consortium, and Italy's oldest Wine Route.
- Cantine VedovaFamily-run Valdobbiadene house producing over one million bottles annually across Prosecco DOC, Superiore DOCG Rive, and the coveted Cartizze microzone, all from Glera grown on steep hillsides in the Treviso province.
- La GioiosaLa Gioiosa is a Treviso Prosecco house run by the Moretti Polegato family, working with a network of 600 growers across the Prosecco DOC and DOCG zones of Valdobbiadene and Asolo.
- Vinicola SerenaSerena Wines 1881 is a Prosecco house near Conegliano in Veneto, founded in 1881 by Pietro Serena as a barrel-wine merchant and now producing over one million bottles a year under the Serenello and Terra Serena labels within the UNESCO-designated Prosecco hills.