Bisson “Glera” Vino Frizzante Trevigiana, 2022
$21.00
Bisson “Glera” Vino Frizzante Trevigiana, 2022
$21.00
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Pierluigi Lugano, the master vignaolo behind Bisson Glera, doesn’t much care to follow conventional wisdom. In Italy, for a wine to be classified as DOCG Prossecco, there are certain boxes a wine needs to check, such as grape variety and quality, carbonation method, and carbonation level. Lugano’s wine checks all of those boxes, but he can’t label his wine prosecco because he decided to put a crown cap on his bottle instead of a mushroom shaped cork with cage. Furthermore, for a bottle to be considered “spumante” there needs to be a particular amount of pressure within. Bisson Glera meets this standard, but again, Lugano’s persistence in using a crown cap means his wine can only be legally labeled “frizzante.” It might be easy to label Lugano as a hollow contrarian, but I assure you this is not the case. Bisson Glera set out to classify itself as something different, unique to the traditional Italian sparkling wine which has become terribly predictable and homogenized in the mainstream market. Bisson Glera is exponentially drier than normal prosecco and is brimming with complexity and minerality. And yet, this beauty maintains that familiar freshness and fruitiness that helped the world fall in love with prosecco in the first place, and proves that Pierluigi is truly a rebel with a cause. Bisson Glera is an outlier worth celebrating.