Serprino wine, the alternative of the Euganean Hills to the Monoculture of Prosecco

Wine Serprino are the bubbles of the Colli Euganei that they like more and more. Glera grapes, sparkling, but it is not a prosecco. It was born among the most poetic hills in Italy, between chestnuts and lavender fields. The places of Petrarch, the volcanic hills associated with the thermal holidays that have been a MAB UNESCO territory since 2024. Serprino boasts an ancient history.

For a long time confined to a poor production and limited interest today the sparkling of the hills is the sleeping beauty that is finally reopening. No more autochthonous grape variety in search of author, but the flagship product of the consortium for the protection of the wines of the Euganean Hills. «Making wine here is a millennial art- cThe abbot Stefano Visintin, a former nuclear physicist who has been guiding forty Benedictine monks who live at the abbey of Praglia since 2020 – We have always produced Prosecco, but since last year we have also decided to offer the Serprino wine, more identity of these places ».

Light and silence, now et labora. The Praglia abbey therefore illuminates the rebirth of the small autochthonous grape variety, different from Prosecco especially for the exclusive volcanic terror of the Euganean hills. An alternative to the Monoculture of Prosecco? Rather, the rebirth of a territory, more mature and aware of itself.

Vineyards of Serprino on the Euganean Hills

Last year the Euganean Hills became reserve MAB UNESCO. A push to rediscover these volcanic hills, linked to thermal tourism but dotted with jewelry villages such as Arquà Petrarca With the tiny streets of the historic center and the typical stone houses. Or Valsanzibiowhere it surprises The garden of Villa Barbarigo- Pizzoni-Ardemani With fountains, streams, water games, statues and a labyrinth.

In small family -run companies in the coast between Galzignano And Vo‘There is a generation of young people who intend to focus on this wine. Like the brothers Laura and Nicola Selminowners, with parents the uncles and cousins ​​of the farm The pianzìo. Laura left the work as a manager from Morellato, Nicola has always dreamed of viticulture: their company sits a sunny ridge. From the windows of the tasting room you can see the bell tower of Galzignano. Here they tell their wines between grass loaves and focaccia produced in the family. “We are increasing the production of Serprino and decreasing that of Prosecco-Pypangano- When the Italian and foreign visitors of thermal tourism come here and tell this wine, they begin to love it”.

There are those who have decided to produce only referred as Catia Bolzonellaformer architect who together with her husband Wilhelm Brouwer he chose to change his life and created Ca ‘della vigna in Selvazzano di inside, or the sisters Gloria and Giorgia Schivo to the farmhouse The cortiskers.

Catia Bolzonella and Wilhelm Brouwer

Sparkling with a more quiet “drink” than the sparkling wine, with organoleptic characteristics given by the volcanic and sedimental terroir, iThe Serprino will also produce in the Sur Lie version (the sparkling on the yeasts or with the bottom). Small cellars, family management, reduced numbers, Gentile bubble. Protected by a generation of wine growers determined to tell these hills in a new way.