Through its technical department and cooperation with research institutes, the Consortium carries out important work to improve production methods in both the vineyard and winery, providing assistance- and training-based services. It supervises all the stages of production from planting to pruning, the selection of the date to begin harvesting and also control over vinification practices.
Apart from promoting progress in viticultural and winemaking techniques, the Consortium’s efforts are geared towards guaranteeing authenticity and protecting the consumer. For this reason, it has been entrusted with supervisory activities by the Ministry for Agricultural, Alimentary and Forestry Policies, a role that it performs under the control of and in collaboration with the Institute for the Prevention and Suppression of Fraud in the Food Sector. With the aim of reinforcing its protection activities, it founded in 2014, together with the other Consortia for Prosecco, a specific body called “Sistema Prosecco” for coordinating the protection of the various Prosecco Denominations in Italy and around the world. In order to guarantee authenticity and protection of the consumer, the Conegliano Valdobbiadene Denomination is subject to the control and certification activities of Valoritalia, a body recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture for such certification.

Correct knowledge of the area of origin and of its flagship wine; the value of hillside viticulture; protection of the image of Conegliano Valdobbiadene wine both in Italy and abroad: all of these aspects are promoted by means of the organisation of events, collaborations and communication campaigns. The Consortium participates every year in the most important international wine fairs, such as Prowein, Vinitaly and Vinexpo. The main event in our calendar is Vino in Villa, the annual festival devoted to Prosecco Superiore that takes place on the third weekend in May, in the heart of the Denomination.

The Consortium has launched an important programme oriented towards safeguarding the area of origin and its environmental sustainability, as well as underlining the value of history as an outline for designing the future: a commitment that it has assumed together with the producers in order to preserve over the course of time the superior quality of this wine as well as the economy of its region.

Find out about the Consortium’s projects geared towards sustainability and safeguarding biodiversity