It is hard to explain why the Bele Casel website drew my attention since the very first time I saw it.
Was it because their story began “more than 40 years ago”, just like mine would, if there were one?
Or was it perhaps because of the photo, depicting three generations and with Luca towering in the [...]

Today I want to tell you about Asolo, the town.
It is a wonderful village overlooking a vast section of the Treviso foothills. The famous poet Giosuè Carducci described Asolo as “the town with one thousand horizons”. Our town also gave hospitality to Queen Catherine Cornaro of Cyprus, after she was exiled from her island Country.
One [...]

A few days ago, on twitter, oliviaemarino had been asking for suggestions about an itinerary for their upcoming visit to the Treviso region and the piece they intended to write about it.
Since I love my land, my hills and the pleasant town of Asolo, I could not resist such a lure and I wrote on [...]

Work in the cellar continues. We assayed all Proseccos, trying very hard to memorize each minute variation. This (here) is how Prosecco looked like at the end of the fermentation process.
Two days ago one of the tanks started exuding some redolence of thickening and dregs.  This is the perfect time to begin the decanting. This [...]

As of April 1st, 2010, Prosecco D.O.C. Montello e Colli Asolani will be awarded the “D.O.C.G. superiore” seal.  It will in fact be labeled as “Asolo Prosecco D.O.C.G. Superiore“.
This will be a challenge for all of us, the wine producers from Montello and Colli Asolani.  Surely not an easy one, given the limits of production [...]

The countryside works are ended. Now we are focusing on the winecellar operations,

twice a day we taste all Prosecco’ tanks,  how you can see wines are still  cloudy.
This year we have noticed a huge difference between   a tank and another, each production area has her own peculiarity. I really don’t know if we have [...]

Today it has not been a real grapeharvest day, 20 persons for just one ectar of Merlot, 50 quintals finished in two hours time, a joke!

At 10.30 a.m. tables for lunch were ready, bread and cheese already cut to be eaten, hot grills, and all workers seated down  holding a full  glass  of wine just [...]

Six days, six  hard days but at the end all Prosecco has been completely harvest! Today we had harvest grape of Caerano’ vineyards,  from these grapes it will be produced the Prosecco  Doc Treviso.
We could have got 180 quintals in this vineyard, but we yield less than 100 quintals.
Today my father has filtered the must [...]

Today  has been an easy going day, I helped my father in the winery doing the last decanting, that this year take more time than in the past. Every tanks before being filled up is saturated with carbon dioxide to avoid any contact of the grape juice with the oxygen.
At noon and in the afternoon [...]

I dont know if it s time to smile or to cry….Prosecco from Cornuda’s vineyard has been completely harvest as well as “Altin” vineyards, the “Pellizzon” one would be completed tomorrow. And these two are the good news. Let’s talk about the negative side, about 80 quintals are waiting to be crashed due to the [...]