Bele Casel Asolo Prosecco Superiore Extra Brut

Cellar for up to 5 years. Serve well chilled.

Bursting with exuberant bubbles and crisp green apple and lemon zest aromas, this lively Prosecco is a great choice for elegant aperitifs or easy-going summer sipping. The fruit for this Prosecco Superiore, the higher quality classification for this type of sparkling wine, is sourced from steep vineyards in Monfumo which are farmed organically. The limestone soils and slopes help to produce a style of Prosecco with a bit more acidity than Valdobbiadene and distinctive almond and citrus flower notes.

The fruit is harvested in September at optimum ripeness and is carefully pressed using a pneumatic press followed by fermentation in stainless steel tanks. The young wine is then aged in stainless steel for 7 months before the secondary fermentation to create the bubbles.

The owner of Bele Casel, Danilo Ferraro, was one of the pioneers of modern Prosecco and started his project in the 1980s while still an oenology student. He began with his father-in-law’s hectare of old Glera vines and a tiny winery, and has grown the project into one of Prosecco’s most exciting boutique wineries. Today he has been joined by his son Luca who shares his father’s commitment to quality and to their land.