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<strong>IT</strong>ALY<br />
TERROIR<br />
The Prosecco displays an elegant, fresh style characterised by very low residual<br />
sugar, with fruity, pear aromas, good flavourful characters, freshness and<br />
minerality. Despite being a limited edition bottling, De Stefani’s Rive has global<br />
distribution.<br />
CONTE COLLALTO<br />
Rive, for Conte Collalto, means Isabella Rive Di Collalto Charmat Lungo Brut. This<br />
Martinotti method sparkling wine is the high-end offering by Collalto cellars.<br />
The grapes are grown in the Rive di Collalto area and produce a very long Charmat-based<br />
wine, due to its lengthy stay on the lees for 9 to 10 months. Only 6,400<br />
bottles are produced, and they are strictly numbered.<br />
The grapes used for ‘Isabella’ come from just one hectare of land: the famous Rive,<br />
thus named because they are set at the top of Collalto hill. There is a lush green<br />
forest all around, which also protects the vines climatically. It was on this very hill,<br />
one thousand years ago in 958, that the ancestors of Princess Isabella Collalto de<br />
Croÿ settled. Since 2007, she has been at the helm of the namesake winery.<br />
THE 1989 MARRIAGE OF ISABELLA DI COLLALTO TO PRINCE GUILLAUME DE CROŸ LATER<br />
SAW THE BIRTH OF THEIR BELOVED CHILDREN EMMANUEL AND VIOLETTE<br />
WINTER 2023 • GILBERT & GAILLARD - THE FRENCH EXPERTS ON WINE<br />
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