Costadilà

Treviso Province
Veneto, Italy

Founded in 2006 by a group of friends, Costadilà (“the hillside over there”) is an ambitious project combining winemaking and farming. Their goal: to build an antidote to the monoculture farming practices taking over so much of Italy’s landscape. Despite co-founder Ernesto Cattel’s untimely passing in 2018, his collaborators have succeeded in making their shared vision for sustainable (and organic) agriculture a reality.

Before these grapes became the wine in your glass, they were growing on the same plots of land as other fruits, vegetables, livestock, and grains in Treviso province, 70 kilometers north of Venice. The vineyards are managed with the lowest amount of intervention possible; zero weeding, no synthetic chemicals. In the cellar, grapes are spontaneously fermented with indigenous yeasts until completely dry and no sulfur is used at any point in the vinification process. Sparkling wines undergo a second fermentation in the bottle ("col fondo") thanks to the must from passito grapes they’re bottled with.

In their commitment to polyculture, Costadilà grows the four traditional grapes of Prosecco: Glera, Bianchetta Trevigiana, Verdizo, and Prosecco. Wines are named by the altitude of the sites where the grapes are grown and Costadilà chooses to bottle all of their wines in clear glass “so that nothing can be hidden.”

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