Happy birthday to the “father” of Prosecco

Antonio Carpenè has gone down in history as one of the most enlightened minds of the nineteenth century in science and entrepreneurship, author of wine and viniculture publications, a “wine visionary” in the historic sparkling wine world for transforming Glera into the best performing Italian wine. This is the story of the “father” of Prosecco, 180 years after his birth on August 17, 1838. The 1924 Prosecco selection (on the market in September) was the first year the name Prosecco was put on the label.