IGT Colli Trevigiani Frizzante "Brichet"

95% Glera/5% Verdiso. Part of the Follador family's 7 hectares, Brichet (bree-KET) is a tiny .25-hectare plot of old, steeply terraced vines on white, stony, scrappy, limestone soils. It lies at high elevation and just outside of the Valdobiaddene DOCG, hence the IGT Colli Trevigiani classification. The Folladors acquired the vines years before its first bottling in the 2008 vintage, waiting so long because of the years it took to fully convert this long-conventionally farmed vineyard to organics.
The bunches are hand-harvested and pressed directly. Fermentation is spontaneous and slow, in vat in the cold cellar, with indigenous yeasts only. The wine goes to full dryness and is left on the lees in tank through the winter; it is then bottled in the spring with must from the same harvest. The bottles go through a second fermentation, again finishing dry, and are not disgorged. Thus the wine has a hazy appearance and wonderful texture, in the tradition of old-fashioned col fondo Prosecco.