📜 Lison-Pramaggiore

Lison-Pramaggiore is an Italian DOC (protected as PDO) for still and sparkling wines from the area around Pramaggiore, in the provinces of Venice and Treviso in Veneto and of Pordenone in Friuli.

Whites are dry: the Lison-Pramaggiore bianco (at least 12% total alcohol, based on at least 50% Friulano) and varietal wines named Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Pinot grigio and Verduzzo. Reds are dry too: Rosso, Merlot, Cabernet, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenère, Malbech and Refosco dal peduncolo rosso, with a riserva version for several of them. There are also two passito wines, Verduzzo (sweet, at least 15% total alcohol) and Refosco dal peduncolo rosso, and a sparkling Spumante from extra brut to dry.

Flat land a few kilometres from the Venetian coast, between the Tagliamento and Livenza rivers, is where these vines grow. The alluvial soil is mostly clay, over a thin layer of calcium carbonate called caranto at 30-70 cm depth. Sea and lagoons keep the climate temperate, and the cool dry Bora and warm humid Scirocco widen the gap between day and night. The name joins the Roman village of Lison with the town of Pramaggiore; Benedictine monks brought rational viticulture here in the tenth century. Two earlier, separate appellations later merged into one.