The story of our Asolo Prosecco Superiore "Extra Brut" begins a long time ago with the first bottles of sparkling wine produced by our father many years ago. More than…

Spring is a marvelous season. Nature reawakens. The cherry trees bloom. And as if by magic, yellow and red strips appear in the vineyards of Prosecco thanks to the use of herbicides.

It’s always difficult to discuss this topic without hurting the feelings of friends and colleagues who use herbicides. And whenever the subject comes up, heated debates often follow between those who use them and those who refuse to use them.

Many have talked about the cost of not using herbicides in the upper hills where tractors cannot be used and all of the work in the vineyards must be done by hand. It seems as those the use of glyphosate doesn’t make financial sense in those vineyards because the cost would be astronomical.
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