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La Zona series of wines), Coriole, Dal Zotto
Estate, Mount Towrong, Parish Hill Wines,
Sam Miranda Wines, Terra Felix, and Vinea
Marson. In the United States, Trinchero Family
Estates sells a wine called Avissi Prosecco, but
it's made with grapes grown in Veneto.
beginning of the twenty-fi rst century when
grapevines called Prosecco di Refrontolo (found
near Treviso) and Tocai Nostrano (near
Breganze) were confi rmed to be Glera Lungo by
Cancellier, Giacobbi, Coletti, Soligo, Michelet,
Coletti, and Stocco (2003). According to the
previously mentioned 2009 study by Crespan's
group, it is also identical to the Ribolla Spizade
variety found in Friuli Venezia Giulia. These
studies led to Glera Lungo being included (as
Prosecco Lungo) in the National Registry in
2000; its name in the registry later changed to
Glera Lungo. Nowadays the variety seems rare
even in the hills of Col San Martino (where it's
believed to be native); I usually fi nd it with
much greater ease in the hills around Breganze,
where it's called Tocai Nostrano. Near Padua
and Bagnoli, in the western part of Veneto,
there are roughly one hundred hectares culti-
vated to Serprina. Crespan's group (2009) also
showed that Glera Lungo is surprisingly com-
mon in the Slovenian Karst.
wines to try:
Bisol*** (Brut Crede, Extra Dry
Del Fol), Adami*** (Dry Giardino), Frozza***,
Ruggeri**, Fratelli Bortolin**, Bortolomiol**,
La Jara**, Le Case Bianche**, Silvano Fol-
lador**, Sorelle Bronca** (Particella 47), Zuc-
chetto**, Andreola*, Drusian*, and Le Bertole*.
For Cartizze, try: Col Vetoraz*** (by far the
best), Bisol**, and Bortolomiol**.
Glera Lungo
where it's found:
Veneto.
national regis-
try code number:
359.
color:
white.
Based on the conventions I follow in this
topic, I shouldn't include Glera Lungo as a
“major variety,” since I don't known of any
monovarietal wines made with it (or none that
is so declared). However, as Glera Lungo is
interplanted with Glera in almost all vineyards,
chances are good that we may all be tasting
Glera Lungo wines (all or in part) at least some
of the time we devote to serious Prosecco imbib-
ing (which means often, in my case). As dis-
cussed in the Glera entry, Glera and Glera
Lungo are distinct varieties (Crespan, Cancel-
lier, Costacurta, Giust, Carraro, Di Stefano, and
Santangelo 2003); however, they are related
(Crespan, Cancellier, Chies, Giannetto,
Meneghetti, and Costacurta 2009). Also called
Serprino, Glera Lungo is apparently much less
common than Glera; nearly every prosecco pro-
ducer I have ever spoken with says he or she has
very little of it in the vineyards. According to
Dalmasso and Dall'Olio (1936-37), Glera
Lungo was common around Valdobbiadene and
Farra di Soligo in pre-phylloxera times but was
abandoned due to uneven yields. As recently as
the latter part of the twentieth century, it was
considered virtually extinct (Cosmo and Polsi-
nelli 1960). However, it was rediscovered at the
Which Wines to Choose and Why
Anecdotal evidence culled from recollections of
farmers and growers tells us that wines made
with Glera Lungo are different from those
made with Glera. Supposedly, these wines are
more spicy and less fl oral than those made with
Glera. Since I'm not sure I've ever tasted a
monovarietal, well-made Glera Lungo wine, I
have no fi rsthand evidence of this. Locals tell
me Varaschin at San Pietro in Barbozza, in the
heart of the prosecco production zone, makes a
monovarietal Glera Lungo wine, but I am not
sure.
Grecanico Dorato
See
GARGANEGA
.
Grechetto
where it's found:
Umbria, Emilia-Romagna,
Lazio, Marche.
national registry code
number:
95 (also listed as Pignoletto at number
300).
color:
white.
