Bottega Il Vino dei Poeti Prosecco 750ml

Bottega is a grappa house first: Aldo Bottega built the distillery, and his son Sandro runs the wine side from Castello Roganzuolo, thirty miles north of Venice. Il Vino dei Poeti is the Prosecco — DOC Treviso, 100% Glera, 11% alcohol.

The Glera is picked by hand in mid-September and pressed straight off the skins. The second fermentation runs in tank at 57°F, cold and slow, so the fruit comes through in the glass instead of cooking off.

Ripe apple and pear, a lift of white flowers, fine persistent bubbles, soft acidity, a clean dry finish. This is the rounder, fruitier end of Prosecco, not the lean mineral kind.

If you usually buy Valdobbiadene Superiore, treat this as the weeknight bottle. It also makes the better spritz: the fruit stands up to Aperol, where a Superiore gets lost in it.

Serve it cold, in a wine glass rather than a flute, with prosciutto, fried calamari or a wedge of Asiago.

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