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exploring taste – Spring/Summer 2016 heritage – 80 years of Santa Margherita

Prosecco Superiore “52” The American unit of the company visits the production
sites during the Familiarization Tour

Stefano Marzotto at the wheel of an Aurelia B20

80 anniversary of Santa Margherita
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2012 Prosecco is experiencing a moment of particular 2015 An important milestone for the Gruppo 2015 Santa Margherita is the main sponsor of the 2016 Since January 1st of this year the company
directly oversees the entire management of
Mille Miglia vintage-car racing competition,
Vinicolo Italiano, that celebrates its eightieth
success in international markets, and Santa
Margherita’s Prosecco celebrates the 60 anniversary, renewing its commitment to and enters the 2015 edition with three crews to the brand’s commercial activities and exports
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anniversary of its pioneering sparkling wine innovation achieved through sustainable celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the brand. to the United States. With the launch of its
making method. It was in 1952 that Santa practice in all aspects of wine making. The estate In this way, the company consolidates the Familiarization Tour in October 2015 a new
Margherita, innovating the traditional processing has achieved complete energetic self-sufficiency, special bond that, since the 1950s, the Marzotto path towards the in-house management
techniques of Prosecco grapes, perfected the thanks to the use of renewable sources, and has family has shared with this competition, a race of this enterprise begins, and Santa
sparkling Prosecco we enjoy today, thus helping succeed in eliminating more than 923 potential that combines old-style glamour, history and Margherita’s American team is accompanied
to build the foundations of its international tons of CO2 from the atmosphere every year. authentic popular appeal. Santa Margherita on a tour of all the company’s Italian estates,
success. No bottle is more deserving of Santa Margherita has invested in the elimination participates to the race with Stefano Marzotto a wonderful chance to really get to know each
celebration than the Prosecco Superiore “52”, of synthetic compound use from the vineyards, driving the legendary Aurelia B20 of 1953. wine but also the local history and unique
the result of a sophisticated and elegant grape the reduction of wasteful water consumption, territory that has created it.
selection which results in a fresh and young and maintains a firm commitment towards
bubbly, with its signature bright straw-yellow reforestation and the protection of biodiversity.
colour, intense notes of peach and acacia, the
soft and lingering mousse and fine perlage.

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