Cantina La Pria

The story of the Colli Berici began 60 million years ago, in another part of the world, at the height of the Tropic of Cancer. Here, the periodic emergence of land, volcanic eruptions, and the formation of a long coral reef have generated various rock layers. Meanwhile, the entire area has moved north, where six million years ago it finally emerged. Today, the Colli Berici are a wonderful place, a succession of valleys, plateaus, and hills, surprising with an extraordinary environment, and a nature open to superb landscapes and unspoiled places where you can still feel the breath of the woods. 

The wines of the winery: La Pria

We wanted to bring the vine back to its origins, believing wholeheartedly in its potential, and thanks to the adoption of new viticulture techniques, with renewed planting densities and high-quality winemaking practices, a truly extraordinary Prosecco has been born.

Colli Berici: lands inhabited for 200,000 years

Crossed by life and history, the Colli Berici today contain a treasure of culture, rural architecture, ancient spiritual centers, Venetian and Palladian villas. The family that runs the La Pria wine estate has lived for centuries on these lands, in places that were once the domain of the noble Giustiniani. They arrived at the foot of the Colli Berici when the long wave of the Republic of Venice came upstream along the rivers, carrying with it distant worlds and glory. Even today we live in Alonte, in the southern part of the hills, where we continue a tradition of viticulture that began in 1779. We take care of our 25 hectares of vineyards, which grow on soil that is the offspring of that ancient sea. A thin land, rich in clay and limestone.

In 1754

The Vicentine abbot Valeriano Canati wrote Il Roccolo Ditirambo. In it, there is the first historical mention of Prosecco, the Prosecco of Monte Berico. When we discovered it, we decided to bring this grape back to our hills, choosing the Balbi glera grape, the ancient primitive strain of Prosecco. We cultivate it organically, like all our other vineyards, with a focus on the ecosystem that has also earned us the strict Biodiversity Friend certification. Year after year, our vineyards and our terroir continue to tell an ancient story.