Cantina La Pria

The history of the Berici Hills began 60 million years ago, in another part of the Earth, at the height of the Tropic of Cancer. Here, the periodic emergence of land, volcanic eruptions and the formation of a long coral reef have generated various rock layers. In the meantime, the entire area has moved north, where it finally emerged six million years ago. Today the Berici Hills are a wonderful place, an alternation of valleys, plateaus and reliefs, which surprise with an extraordinary environment, and a nature open to superb landscapes and uncontaminated places where you can still hear the

breath of the woods.

The wines of &' company: La Pria We wanted to

bring the grape back to its origins, fully believing in its potential and thanks to the introduction of new viticultural techniques, with renewed planting systems and high-quality oenological practices, a truly unusual Prosecco was born

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Berici Hills: lands inhabited for 200,000 years

Crossed by life and history, the Berici Hills today contain a treasure of culture, rural architecture, ancient spiritual centers, Venetian and Palladian villas. The family that governs &' Azienda La Pria has lived on these lands for centuries, in places that were formerly Justinian nobles. They arrived at the foot of the Berici Hills when the long wave of the Republic of Venice came up the rivers, with its load of distant worlds and glory. Even today we live in Alonte, in the southern part of the Hills, where we continue a tradition of viticulture that began in 1779. We take care of our 25 hectares of vineyards, which grow on the soil derived from that ancient sea. A thin soil, rich in clay and limestone

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In 1754

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the Vicentine abbot Valeriano Canati wrote Il Roccolo Ditirambo. In it there is the first historical mention of Prosecco, Prosecco di Monte Berico. When we discovered it, we decided to bring this grape back to our hills, choosing the Glera Balbi grape, the ancient primitive strain of Prosecco. We cultivate it organically, like all our other vineyards, with attention to the ecosystem that has also earned us the strict Biodiversity Friend certification.

Year after year, our vineyards and our terroir continue to tell an ancient story.