NEWS
Supply-demand crisis: Prosecco needs lower yields, not restrictions on sales
On Italian blogs, everyone is talking about the release of roughly 100,000 hectoliters of Prosecco. [According to a report published by Oggi Treviso on Monday,

Luca on tasting blind: Wine Guides, seen from the other side of the fence
I have always had a troubled relationship with wine guides and wine competitions. Having followed previous competitions, more than one “win” has made me suspicious.

A cold April
After a winter that wasn’t wintry, we then had a spring with out-of-control temperatures. On April 16 and 17, the thermometer dropped to below freezing.
Will Lyons tastes and talks about Bele Casel for Wall Street Journal
From the department of “it doesn’t get much better than this”… “Prosecco has often been derided for its easy drinking, neutral style,” write the editors
Vegetative cycle far ahead of the norm for 2014
Above: a photo taken in the vineyards on March 22. The leaves are already extended and the bunch is already visible, notes grape grower and

Bianchetta: one of the Veneto’s long-lost treasures, now revived
Many years ago, the vines of the Asolo hills were carpeted by a wide range of grape varieties, from Bianchetta, Perera, and Rabbiosa, to Marzemina


