The Story of Prosecco Superiore [Hardcover]

Why is Prosecco so popular?
In the United States,Proseccois now a household word. Throughout the world, Prosecco bottles sell at twice the rate of Champagnes, 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 Republics 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 Napoleons 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 Carpen?, 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.
To tell the science and history of the making of Prosecco Superiore, its roots in Italian languages and cultures and in the lives and sounds of those hills of the Venetos upper Marca Trevigiana long celebrated as sites of the top Prosecco vineyards, this book is written in a style that leads readers to unfamiliar places so that they might move richly and daringly through 150 years of Proseccos landscape. The story moves through Carpen?s days and follows his work into the mid-20th century as modern Prosecco began its rise, then into the 21st as farmers and scientists work Prosecco Superiores culture of hills and ingenuity into new blends of complexity, technology, and artisanship. Built on intensive and, as appropriate to winelÓ.