17. Maggio 2026

Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG: Everything You Need to Know

Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG – The Complete Guide

Ancient vines, UNESCO hills, hand harvesting, lunar traditions and 2000 years of history. Everything that makes Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG unique — in one place.

Some wines need a story. This one needs several.

The Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG is not a simple wine to explain — not because it is complicated, but because it is deep. Every aspect of it connects to something larger: a landscape, a history, a tradition, a family, a season, a moon.

Here is where to begin.

The place.

These hills in the Treviso province of northeastern Italy were recognised in 2019 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site — a landscape of outstanding universal value, shaped over centuries by human hands on impossibly steep slopes. No machine works these terraces. Every grape is harvested by hand. The beauty you see is inseparable from the wine you taste.

The history.

The Romans were here. The Via Claudia Augusta Altinate passed through this territory two thousand years ago — and where Romans walked, vines followed. In 530 AD a boy named Venanzio Fortunato was born in Valdobbiadene, became Bishop of Poitiers, and may have changed the history of sparkling wine forever. In 1876, the first enological school in Italy opened right here in Conegliano — and is still teaching today.

[Read: Pliny the Elder and the Ancient Roots of Wine in the Prosecco Hills] Blog [Read: The Man Who Taught the World About Bubbles Was Born in the Prosecco Hills]

The vines.

The oldest vines in these hills are 90 to 100 years old. They survived phylloxera, two world wars, and the great emigration that emptied these hillsides of their young. They are still here because the oldest farmers never left. The average age of vines across these hills is 45 years — extraordinary by any global standard.

[Read: Old Vines Blog — The Living Memory of the Prosecco Hills]

The single vineyards.

Within the DOCG, the Rive represent the highest expression of this territory — 43 recognised single-vineyard wines, each with its own soil, its own microclimate, its own harvest date, its own conversation between vine and hillside.

[Read: The Rive of Valdobbiadene]Blog

The oldest tradition.

Before Méthode Classique. Before Charmat. There was Col Fondo — wine refermented in bottle, with live yeasts, bottled during Holy Week under a waxing moon. In these hills, this tradition was never abandoned. It is still alive today.

[Read: Col Fondo — BlogThe Ancient Sparkling Wine That Never Disappeared]

The guarantee.

DOCG — Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita — is the highest classification in Italian wine law. It guarantees origin, production method, and quality. In Conegliano Valdobbiadene, that guarantee is backed by two thousand years of knowledge and the hands of families who have never stopped believing in these hills.

Come and taste it where it was born.

The best way to understand this wine is not to read about it. It is to stand on these slopes, meet the people who make it, and taste it in the place where everything began.

That is what I offer — private tours of the Conegliano Valdobbiadene UNESCO hills, guided by a local sommelier who grew up here.

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