Between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene the hills rise in narrow, steep ridges, called hogbacks, and vines run in tight rows across them. Growers have shaped this landscape by hand since the seventeenth century, building ciglioni, small grassy terraces that give the slopes a chessboard look.
It grows Glera grapes for Prosecco Superiore, the sparkling wine of the Conegliano Valdobbiadene DOCG, with the steep Cartizze hill and the single-village Rive bottlings as the crown of the appellation. UNESCO listed the hills in 2019. You come to drive the Strada del Prosecco, Italy's first wine route, stop in family cantinas and walk a stretch of the 51-kilometer Prosecco Hills Trail.
