Innocente Nardi

The Path

The presidency of the Consorzio di Tutela del Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG in Conegliano Valdobbiadene put Innocente Nardi in direct view of one of the region’s most closely watched wine offices. The work was less about display than about holding a designation together: guarding the rules, the territory, and the reputation attached to a named landscape that carries weight far beyond the local hills. From 2017–2020, Innocente Nardi served as president at Consorzio di Tutela del Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG in Conegliano Valdobbiadene. That span defines a chapter of leadership built on stewardship rather than spectacle, with the balance of administration and public responsibility that comes with representing a community whose identity is bound to place, tradition, and scrutiny. The role called for measured authority, and the years 2017–2020 frame a period in which every decision carried through to growers, vines, and the wider conversation around Prosecco Superiore.

The Work Today

La Farra in Pieve di Soligo, Italy, is the named place attached to Nardi beyond the consortium role. It keeps his work inside the same territory that shapes the Prosecco Superiore narrative, carrying the connection from formal representation into a lived landscape where geography and wine remain inseparable.

In Their Words “I am extremely proud, because UNESCO recognition is confirmation of the unique value of the hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene landscape, fruit of man's work in harmony with nature.” “These divisions are ruining us. In this way we are also putting the future of our children at risk.”

Acclaim

On UNESCO recognition, Nardi said, "I am extremely proud, because UNESCO recognition is confirmation of the unique value of the hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene landscape, fruit of man's work in harmony with nature." The line reads as a statement of custodianship: a recognition of the hills as both working ground and cultural inheritance. He also warned, "These divisions are ruining us. In this way we are also putting the future of our children at risk." The remark is plain in its stakes, pointing to how division can weaken not just the present structure of the territory, but what gets passed forward next.