Sorgente Prosecco Brut, Veneto, Italy

Winemaker NotesThe Sorgente project was born out of the mutual desire for The Source and a special undisclosed estate (sorry!) to work together with only their Prosecco wines. Given that these wines are not publicly connected to their estate, it doesn’t make sense to speak much of the estate history. Here we will focus on the landscape and technical details, which are many.Sorgente Prosecco comes from a six hectare parcel of Glera vines located in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and a solid golf shot away from the Veneto border to the west, the vineyards sit only a few hundred meters from the natural spring (called sorgente in Italian) at the nascita of the Livenza River. Interestingly, we chose the name Sorgente because it means “Source” in Italian, but I had no idea at the time that it was in fact bordering a river that begins from a natural spring.The proximity to the Alps (which begins no more than ten miles to the north) and the Adriatic (twenty miles away) brings an ideal temperature char