Domini Del Leone Prosecco Brut Friulano and planting Arbane and Petit

and planting Arbane and Petit Meslier in 2010 was a bet that Champagne's abandoned grapes still had something to say

mixing with clay and organic matter to create a growing environment of unusual minerality and drainage

ideal for the slow ripening of the Glera grape

in proportion to how the vineyard is planted

Domini Del Leone Prosecco Brut Friulano and planting Arbane and PetitThe Land Most Prosecco comes from the hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, but this one grows on the flat mainland behind Venice, on a soil that used to be seabed. The estate's Prosecco DOC vines sit over Caranto, a compact layer of maritime clay studded with calcareous nodules that formed in the Pleistocene era, somewhere between 11,000 and 2. 5 million years ago. That ancient marine clay is the estate's signature, and it hands the wine a mineral