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Casa Coste Piane
A sip through time: This Prosecco doesn't sparkle from an autoclave, but ferments in the bottle – just as it did a hundred years ago. Casa Coste Piane in Santo Stefano di Valdobbiadene holds fast to a method that seemed nearly extinct. Loris Follador, who calls himself a farmer and is a connoisseur of history and poetry, works with his sons Raffaele and Adelchi on six hectares of steep hillsides, where vines reach up to 120 years old. Here there are no herbicides, no clones, no compromises – only hand-harvesting, selection of the finest grapes and the patient work of generations.
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Brichet Colli Trevigiani IGT Frizzante Naturalmente 1500ml Magnum
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More about Casa Coste Piane
Col fondo: When the bottle becomes a fermentation tank
Whilst most Prosecco producers opt for rapid tank fermentation, Casa Coste Piane takes the slow route. After the initial fermentation, the wine is bottled with its yeasts and left to overwinter in cool conditions. With spring, fermentation awakens anew – entirely of its own accord. No disgorging, no dosage, no filtration. The result: the Valdobbiadene Prosecco DOCG Frizzante Naturalmente with its silky cloudiness, just one gramme of residual sugar and a liveliness that industrial products lack.
Viticoltura eroica: Heroic viticulture
The designation is no marketing platitude. Between 250 and 400 metres altitude, the vines cling to slopes so steep that every machine surrenders. The soil is only a few centimetres deep, beneath it lies bare limestone. It is precisely here that the ancient vines have driven their roots deep into the rock. Loris Follador's grandfather and father planted them – neither Loris nor his sons have ever had to set a single vine. Mass selection rather than clonal selection: the family propagates only from their own stock to preserve genetic diversity.
The philosophy of a farmer-poet
Loris Follador is an agronomist by profession, but prefers to call himself "guardian of the land". He quotes poetry between the vine rows and can speak for hours about the history of Prosecco – about a time when all wines were made as his are today. Since 1983 the family has bottled their own wine; before that, everything went into barrel for merchants. Together with his wife Sandra and their sons, he manages the six hectares according to organic principles: copper and sulphur against fungi, grass and wildflowers between the vines, chickens and ducks as workers.
Glera and her forgotten sisters
95 per cent of the vines are Glera, yet Casa Coste Piane also cultivates Verdiso, Bianchetta and Perera – autochthonous varieties that have long since been grubbed up elsewhere. This diversity characterises the Brichet Colli Trevigiani IGT, which comes from vineyard sites outside the DOCG boundaries and surprises with its mineral depth. As a member of the Consorzio Vini Veri, the estate has committed itself to natural wine – no chemical treatments, no artificial stabilisation. Those seeking authentic Prosecco from the Veneto will find in Casa Coste Piane and neighbouring producers such as Fidora an alternative to the mainstream.