世界著名气泡酒产地普罗塞克山丘, 意大利威尼托 Farra di Soligo in the Prosecco Hills of Veneto, Italy (© Olimpio Fantuz/Sime/eStock Photo)

世界著名气泡酒产地普罗塞克山丘,意大利威尼托 Farra di Soligo in the Prosecco Hills of Veneto, Italy (© Olimpio Fantuz/Sime/eStock Photo)

Autumn in the Prosecco Hills

It's fall here in the Prosecco Hills of northeastern Italy. We're just outside Farra di Soligo, a village about 30 miles northwest of Venice. This region is known for growing the glera grape used to make the white wine called prosecco. Once a humble sparkling wine, and considered a poor cousin to Champagne, prosecco now eclipses Champagne in global popularity. More than 600 million bottles of prosecco were produced in Italy in 2018, about twice the amount of Champagne.

Of those 600 million bottles produced a year, about 90 million bottles of prosecco come from the Prosecco Hills region. Like most Italian grape-growing areas, the Prosecco Hills boast a spectacular landscape. Small plots of grapes have grown on narrow grassy terraces known as 'ciglioni' since the 17th century. From above, the ciglioni produce a checkerboard effect with vines growing both horizontally along and vertical to the hillsides. Some plots even use the 19th-century 'bellussera' technique of training the grapevines to grow up along trees. This region is so distinctive, it was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019.

普洛塞科山的秋天

它落在意大利东北部的普罗塞科山上。我们就在法拉·迪·索利戈（Farra di Soligo）外面，这是一个距离威尼斯西北约30英里的村庄。这一地区以种植用来酿造白葡萄酒普罗塞科（prosecco）的格雷拉葡萄而闻名。普罗塞科一度是一种谦逊的起泡酒，被认为是香槟的穷表亲，但现在它在全球的受欢迎程度超过了香槟。2018年，意大利生产了6亿多瓶prosecco，约为香槟产量的两倍。

在每年生产的6亿瓶产品中，约有9000万瓶来自prosecco Hills地区。像大多数意大利葡萄种植区一样，普洛塞科山拥有壮观的景观。自17世纪以来，小片葡萄种植在被称为“ciglioni”的狭窄草地梯田上。从上面看，ciglioni产生了棋盘效应，藤蔓沿山坡水平和垂直生长。一些葡萄园甚至采用19世纪的“贝卢斯拉”技术，训练葡萄沿着树木生长。该地区非常独特，2019年被联合国教科文组织命名为世界遗产。