ANDREOLA

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The Winery is situated in Treviso province, in the heart of the Prosecco production area, north east of Italy.

A passion for Vines and Wine is the distinguishing feature of this family business founded in 1984 by Nazareno Pola that even today continues to deal with production from the vineyard to the winery, wisely combining ancient methods and modern technologies, passion with reason.

Today Stefano Pola continues to run the estate after his father’s own philosophy: an evolution that has led Andreola Orsola to thorough understanding of the “character” of Prosecco Superiore DOCG; knowing how the variety has evolved and its different adaptability to territory and climatic diversity guarantees the customer a top quality product that is controlled at every stage and fully complies with the new legal provisions on supply chain traceability.

The geographical heart of Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore Docg lies between the two municipalities of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene. Here we find a landscape of rare beauty, featuring gentle hills embroidered with irregular vines that follow its contours.

The glaciers that slid down from the Dolomites in primordial times – carving out a route that later became the bed of the river Piave – are the origins of the physical configuration of the territory today: the result is terrain that has absorbed valuable elements from the process of erosion, and today we find these in our vines.

The good balance of the chemical-physical components of the soil, and in particular the microclimate, characterized by an extreme temperature range and constant humidity contribute to distinguishing the fruit of the vineyards in the area by its phenol components and above all by its complex aromas.

This typical geographical feature is found in Andreola wines: a top quality Prosecco that owes everything to respect for and exaltation of its territorial origins.

The varieties grown in the hills surrounding Col S. Martino – from which Andreola produces Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore Docg – come within the classification of “mountain” or “heroic” viticulture due to the steepness of the slopes (which at times exceeds 45 degrees).

In effect even today we can describe as heroic the prevalently manual work necessary to grow these vines: here mechanical and technological innovation helps only partially; it is simply a passion for the territory and wine, and the hard labour of grape vine farmers, that makes it possible to maintain an environment with such delicate equilibrium.

Andreola wishes to make this aspect one of its strong points, and in 2010 was the first and only producer of Prosecco to join CERVIM – the Centre for Research, Environmental Sustainability and Advancement of Mountain Viticulture. It also supports the promotion of mountain culture in many of its corporate communications.