Bedin - Il Lieve Col Fondo Prosecco (pet nat)

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"Very cloudy straw in colour, due to the yeast deposit on the bottom of the bottle, with delicate bubbles. The process of lees ageing adds notes of baked bread that blend with fruity scents in a very elegant, complex bouquet. In the mouth it is full-flavoured and bone-dry, very refreshing and cleansing.

Il Lieve is a beautiful example of sparkling wine as it was done a hundred years ago: “on its lees” with a traditional secondary fermentation in bottle.

Once destemmed, the grapes are soft pressed and the juice is conveyed to stainless steel tanks for the primary fermentation. Temperature is controlled throughout the fermentation to enhance aroma retention and fermentation stops once the wine has reached a sufficient, although low alcohol content.

The wine is bottled in one single bottling run, usually in February. Secondary fermentation takes place in the bottle, as per the traditional method. Unlike most sparkling wines obtained with the traditional method, for Il Lieve there is no disgorging and no dosage. The resulting wine is cloudy with a yeasty sediment settling on the bottom of the bottle that enriches the wine with flavours and complexity and gives it a decidedly unique personality."

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Bedin - Società Agricola Colli Asolani

The history of the “Società Agricola Colli Asolani” dates back to the early 1900, when the great grandfather Giovanni Bedin started working as a nurseryman and growing his own vines. At that time in northern Italy the rural landscape was dominated by vines growing together with mulberries, whose leaves constituted the sole food source for silkworms.

Giacomo Bedin, the grandfather, inherited his father’s passion for the land and followed his footsteps purchasing the estate in Cornuda in 1948. Here, in the smooth fertile hills that overlook the sanctuary of “Madonna della Rocca”, he planted the first vineyards and passed down to his son Giovanni the constancy and resourcefulness of the past generations.

Giovanni Bedin combined the ever increasing viticultural activity with stock-breeding. Under his direction, in the late ‘60s, the company promoted the first edition of the “Mostra del vino” in Cornuda: a traditional wine exhibition that contributed to the strengthening of the relationship between the territory, its inhabitants and its quality wines, destined to become internationally-awarded excellences. Giovanni carried on the stock-breeding activity until the second half of the ‘80s and planted three hectares of vineyards altogether, introducing his sons to the art of winemaking.

Enrico Bedin, the current owner, and his brothers Luigi, Denis and Damiano joined the company and marked a turning point by gradually transforming it from a traditional farm to a modern winery, in line with prevailing market demands. The Bedin brothers, remaining faithful to the core values they inherited from their ancestors, enriched the estate with the acquisition of new vineyards and the construction of new winemaking, bottling and packaging facilities.

Today the “Società Agricola Colli Asolani”, with its 40 hectares of vineyards, is a modern winery, projected into the future but well-rooted in the past of his homeland. After four generations, the Bedin family still manages to transform its passion into a career, combining the careful attention to product quality with the efforts to enhance and promote the territory through the preservation of autoctone vines, rich in aromas and flavours of the local countryside.

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Glera

Glera and other local grape varieties such as Bianchetta Trevigiana, Boschera, Perera.

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