Decipher an Italian Prosecco

2013 Cecilia Beretta Brut Prosecco Superiore

2013 Cecilia Beretta Brut Prosecco Superiore D.O.C.G. (Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita) Conegliano Valdobbiadene Italy Ok, so if you don’t know much about Italian wines, let’s dissect this label together. The producer, Cecilia Beretta, is named at the top of the label. Often Prosecco wines (and many other types of sparkling wines) are made with juice from more than one vintage. Millesimato means that the year this wine was grown (2013) was a very good year in the region. So good in fact that…

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