The Venice Wines Consortium was founded in 2011 by the fusion of the Voluntary Consortium for the Protection of the Lison Pramaggiore DOC Wines and the Consortium for the Protection of the Piave DOC Wines with the aim to protect and enhance the Designations of Controlled Origin that stretch in the hinterland of Venice, between the provinces of Treviso and Venice.
The Venice Wine Consortium protects 44 DOC and 2 DOCG wines, one white, Lison, and one red, Malanotte del Piave (which will be officially launched on 1st November this year), bringing together over 4,000 producers in the provinces of Pordenone, Treviso and Venice. An area naturally and historically suited to wine–growing, currently among the most important and advanced in Italy.
Numerous testimonies attest that in the plains of the provinces of Treviso and Venice there were vineyards owned by the Doges, and local wines of the Venetian Republic were produced. Literature also shows evidence of sending of Venetian wines to the courts of Poland, of Emperor Otto and of Charlemagne. The quality of these wines, then, was already well known in ancient times.
