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    612-822-4611

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The Story of Prosecco Superiore

The Story of Prosecco Superiore

Gordon, Susan H.

Paperback

Travel GeneralGeneral Antiques & CollectiblesWine

ISBN13: 9798216494102
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Why is Prosecco so popular?
In the United States, Prosecco is now a household word. Throughout the world, Prosecco bottles sell at twice the rate of Champagne's, even during a pandemic. Although the comparison with Champagne, the great sparkling wine of northern France often erroneously used as synonym of sparkling wine, is a common one, it is not immediately obvious why it should be. This story of Prosecco Superiore -- sparkling Prosecco grown in two small hilly historic zones of the ancient Venetian Republic's interior lands -- shows them as uniquely Italian sparkling wines, tracing them to those hills at the second half of the 19th century, time of uprisings that would oust Napoleon's France and the Habsburgs' Austria and lead to the creation of an Italian nation. Among the many who fought to make an Italy was a pharmaceutical student born four decades after the fall of Venice: local chemist, follower of ardent Italian insurgent Giuseppe Mazzini, Garibaldian soldier, winemaker, writer, inventor, cheerful and optimistic if informal politician Antonio Carpenè, founder of the oldest Prosecco winery and who created these wines' prototype a century before materials such as stainless steel would finally exist to make them possible.

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