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<strong>IT</strong>ALY<br />
TERROIR<br />
- 20,600 bottles a year of Conegliano Prosecco<br />
Superiore Docg Rive di Formeniga Millesimato<br />
Extra Brut - Springo Blue<br />
- 20,500 bottles a year of Conegliano Prosecco<br />
Superiore Docg Rive di Manzana Millesimato Dry<br />
- Springo Bronze<br />
In addition to this are 5,500 bottles a year of<br />
Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore di Cartizze<br />
DOCG Springo Gold Dry, although not ‘Rive’.<br />
The grapes are vinified and the sparkling wine is<br />
made separately precisely to find and guarantee<br />
the maximum expression of their original Rive.<br />
In the vineyards, the company complies with the<br />
SQNPI protocol, Sistema di Qualità Nazionale di<br />
Produzione Integrata (National Quality System<br />
for Integrated Production), a voluntary certification<br />
scheme for all agricultural and food products<br />
using integrated production techniques. For the<br />
wines themselves, opposite styles were chosen for<br />
two of the Rive. Rive di Manzana best expresses<br />
the dry version, offering an explosion of varietal<br />
aromas of yellow-fleshed fruit such as apple and<br />
yellow peach, banana and wisteria flowers. Rive<br />
di Formeniga illustrates the dry version, the<br />
extra-brut. Here, notes of apple, lily of the valley,<br />
wisteria, vegetable notes of sage and thyme, cedar,<br />
orange and mineral hints of pumice immediately<br />
emerge in the glass.<br />
The wines are distributed throughout the country,<br />
including the islands. Exports account for 65%<br />
of the company’s turnover and Le Manzane is<br />
present in 36 countries. In addition to Italy, its<br />
wines are sold in Austria, Belgium, Belarus,<br />
Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic,<br />
Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary,<br />
Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malta, Nigeria,<br />
the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, San Marino,<br />
Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia,<br />
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine and<br />
the United Kingdom.<br />
THE VIEW FROM ABOVE LE MANZANE’S HEADQUARTERS IN SAN PIETRO DI FELETTO IN THE<br />
PROVINCE OF TREVISO<br />
DE STEFANI’S HEADQUARTERS AND WINERY IN FOSSALTA DI PIAVE,<br />
IN THE PROVINCE OF VENICE<br />
DE STEFANI<br />
The De Stefani family comes from Refrontolo,<br />
a small village in the Veneto region of Italy, as<br />
WINTER 2023 • GILBERT & GAILLARD - THE FRENCH EXPERTS ON WINE<br />
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