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Veneto-based wine industry veteran Alessandro Furlan made wine at his family’s vineyard in Friuli for years before deciding to start his own label with longtime friend and owner of Regal Wine Imports, Charlie Trivinia. "Ca" means home and family in the local dialect of northeast Italy, so the name Ca' Furlan references Alessandro’s roots in the historic regions of Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto, both places Alessandro calls home.
Sourced from some of the best vineyards in the Veneto, Alessandro works with local partners to carefully select and blend the wines to maintain a consistent style with fresh flavors for the Ca' Furlan Prosecco, Prosecco Rosé, and sparkling Moscato. The wines are carefully blended and bottled at a leading Veneto producer’s facility.
The wines in the Ca' Furlan line are named in honor of women in the two founders' families. Prosecco Cuvee Beatrice is named after Alessandro’s daughter, Beatrice. Moscato Cuvee Adriana is for Alessandro's wife, Adriana, and Prosecco Rosé Cuvee Mariana is a Trivinia family name. The gold accents and elegant crown on the packaging encourage Ca' Furlan drinkers to "Crown the Moment," whether it’s a milestone achievement, the finish of a satisfying workday, or a relaxing weekend, with a glass of Ca' Furlan.
Producing every style of wine and with great success, the Veneto is one of the most multi-faceted wine regions of Italy.
Veneto's appellation called Valpolicella (meaning “valley of cellars” in Italian) is a series of north to south valleys and is the source of the region’s best red wine with the same name. Valpolicella—the wine—is juicy, spicy, tart and packed full of red cherry flavors. Corvina makes up the backbone of the blend with Rondinella, Molinara, Croatina and others playing supporting roles. Amarone, a dry red, and Recioto, a sweet wine, follow the same blending patterns but are made from grapes left to dry for a few months before pressing. The drying process results in intense, full-bodied, heady and often, quite cerebral wines.
Soave, based on the indigenous Garganega grape, is the famous white here—made ultra popular in the 1970s at a time when quantity was more important than quality. Today one can find great values on whites from Soave, making it a perfect choice as an everyday sipper! But the more recent local, increased focus on low yields and high quality winemaking in the original Soave zone, now called Soave Classico, gives the real gems of the area. A fine Soave Classico will exhibit a round palate full of flavors such as ripe pear, yellow peach, melon or orange zest and have smoky and floral aromas and a sapid, fresh, mineral-driven finish.
Much of Italy’s Pinot grigio hails from the Veneto, where the crisp and refreshing style is easy to maintain; the ultra-popular sparkling wine, Prosecco, comes from here as well.
A term typically reserved for Champagne and Sparkling Wines, non-vintage or simply “NV” on a label indicates a blend of finished wines from different vintages (years of harvest). To make non-vintage Champagne, typically the current year’s harvest (in other words, the current vintage) forms the base of the blend. Finished wines from previous years, called “vins de reserve” are blended in at approximately 10-50% of the total volume in order to achieve the flavor, complexity, body and acidity for the desired house style. A tiny proportion of Champagnes are made from a single vintage.
There are also some very large production still wines that may not claim one particular vintage. This would be at the discretion of the winemaker’s goals for character of the final wine.