- Grape
- Glera
- Denomination
- Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco DOCG
- Region
- Veneto
- ABV
- 11%
- Drink
- NV: 2026 to 2027
Valdo's gold-label Prosecco from the Valdobbiadene hills, made only from Glera. Extra Dry means a shade sweeter than Brut: apple, acacia and honey, soft bubbles, 11% alcohol. Cheaper than most Prosecco Superiore on this site, in three sizes.
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Where to buy Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG Extra Dry Marca Oro Valdo
One shop on this page sells this wine, so there is no price to compare between shops. Each price is the one we last read on its page, on the date beside it.
No current retailer offer matches that combination.
Stock status is read from each retailer’s page several times a week and may lag. Case and magnum listings show a per-bottle or per-litre equivalent and sit outside the best-price figure.
What Valdo Marca Oro tastes like
Valdo calls it slim and gentle, with a light sweetness at the end. Extra Dry holds 12 to 17 grams of sugar a litre under EU rules, so it is a shade sweeter than a Brut, not drier. Most people assume the opposite.
- Tasted by
- Valdo Spumanti
- Tasted on
- 5 September 2026
- Source
- Producer notes · confidence High
Valdo's own note calls the smell unmistakably fruity: wild apple, Golden apple, acacia flowers and honey. Drinkers say much the same. Apple, pear and green apple are the notes named most often across 24,571 ratings on Vivino. The floral lift sits behind the fruit rather than in front of it.
Valdo describes the taste as slim and gentle, of moderate body, with a light sweetness left at the end. That sweetness is the Extra Dry label doing its job. EU rules set Extra Dry at 12 to 17 grams of sugar a litre, against under 12 for Brut. The bubbles are soft rather than sharp, which is what three months in a sealed tank gives you instead of years in bottle.
Short and clean. At 11% alcohol there is no heat to carry it on, and the light sweetness Valdo leaves at the end fades away with the apple.
This is Valdo's flagship gold label, built to be drunk young, inside about 18 months of bottling. The public verdict is warm rather than excited: 3.7 out of 5 from 24,571 Vivino ratings, praised as easy and soft, never as complicated.
Marca Oro in the UK: the cheap end of Valdobbiadene DOCG, in three bottle sizes
Vino.com is the one UK shop we list for it, in three sizes: the standard bottle, the magnum and the 3-litre jeroboam in a wooden box. The magnum costs about the same per litre as the standard bottle, or a shade less, so it is the cheap way to buy more. The jeroboam costs clearly more per litre: the box is part of the price. Among the Valdobbiadene DOCG Proseccos here, it sits at the cheap end.
Other vintages and formats: 2 price lines
Magnum 150cl · NV: £23.80, 1 UK retailer
Double magnum 300cl · NV: £69.00, 1 UK retailer
Where Marca Oro fits
It scores high for everyday drinking and for beginners: 11% alcohol, soft bubbles and a price at the cheap end of its DOCG. It scores low for cellaring, because Valdo built it to be drunk young.
Soft bubbles, apple and honey, only 11% alcohol and a touch of sweetness, so nothing about it is hard work.
Cheaper than most Prosecco Superiore on this site, light at 11%, and it opens a Tuesday as happily as a party.
Fizz and a light sweetness handle fried food, salt and mild chilli, though it is too delicate for red meat.
The cheap end of Italy's top Prosecco tier on this site, with 91 points from Falstaff and a Mundus Vini Best of Show behind it.
A gold label from the DOCG hills that also comes in magnum and 3-litre sizes, so it dresses up well without costing much.
Valdo gives it three months in tank and two in bottle and says drink it young, so there is nothing to age.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco in five fields
A compact view of what the Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
Marca Oro carries no vintage year
Valdo blends this to one house style every harvest, so no year appears on the label. It spends three months in tank and two in bottle, then goes out. Drink it inside about 18 months of bottling.
- Best price
- £12.20
- Retailers
- 3 in stock
- ABV
- 11.0%
- Window
- Drink now through 2027
Marca Oro carries no year on the label. Valdo blends it to the same house style every harvest, then releases it after three months in tank and two in bottle. Drink it inside about 18 months, while the apple and acacia are still bright.
- Best price
- not listed
- Retailers
- 0 in stock
- ABV
- 11.0%
- Window
- Drink now through 2027
Marca Oro carries no year on the label. Valdo blends it to the same house style every harvest, then releases it after three months in tank and two in bottle. Drink it inside about 18 months, while the apple and acacia are still bright.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Perfect Pairings
Dishes that go with this wine
Fried food, shellfish and the Venice lagoon
Valdo puts it forward as an aperitif and with delicate fish. The Venetian classics fit best: creamed salt cod, seafood risotto and sarde in saor. The fizz and the light sweetness also make short work of batter and salt.
Bubbles and a little sugar beat fried food
Hot oil and salt coat your tongue. The fizz scrubs it clean, and the small amount of sugar in an Extra Dry rounds off the salt. At 11% alcohol it stays out of the way instead of adding heat on top of the fat.
Try with: Fish and Chips · Arancini · Gnocco fritto · Peperoni Cruschi · Prawn Tempura · More pairings →
Made for the seafood of the Venice lagoon
Glera off the Valdobbiadene hills keeps a firm line of acid, and salty shellfish needs exactly that. Creamed salt cod and the tiny grey shrimp of the lagoon come from about an hour down the road. The match is local before it is clever.
Try with: Baccala Mantecato · Polenta e schie · Squid ink risotto · Impepata di cozze · More pairings →
The sugar in Extra Dry takes the burn off chilli
Extra Dry carries 12 to 17 grams of sugar a litre, and sugar is what cools chilli heat. Alcohol makes heat worse, and at 11% there is little of it here. That makes this a better takeaway bottle than a bone-dry Brut.
Try with: Kerala prawn curry · Prawn masala · Tandoori prawns · Salt and pepper prawns · More pairings →
Apple, acacia and honey to open a meal
Valdo describes the smell as wild apple, acacia flowers and honey. Those notes sit under salty nibbles rather than fighting them. Valdo asks for 6 to 7 degrees in the glass, colder than most people pour Prosecco.
Try with: Oysters · Arancini · Baccala Mantecato · Focaccia · More pairings →
Leave it alone with slow-cooked red meat
This is a light, sweet-edged sparkling wine of 11% alcohol. Against braised beef or a thick meat sauce it simply disappears, and the sugar sits awkwardly against the savoury depth. Pour a Valpolicella Ripasso instead, a smooth medium-bodied red from the same corner of Veneto.
Skip with: Brasato al Barolo · Ragu alla bolognese · Ossobuco alla Milanese · Fiorentina steak · Pairing guide →
Marca Oro is not a wine to lay down
Valdo builds this for freshness, not for age. Three months in tank, two in bottle, then out of the door. It is at its best inside 18 months and tired by two years.
For the main offer above.
Pour it straight from the bottle.
Valdo gives it three months in tank and two in bottle and says drink it young, so there is nothing to age.
£12.20 for a 75cl bottle, at Vino.com, is the best price we track, and we have no signal of further discounting.
How we checked Marca Oro
Read directly from each retailer’s public product page several times a week. Last refresh: 6 Nov 2026, 04:14 BST. We do not hold stock and we do not accept payment for placement.
Confidence · HighBased on the producer's published tasting notes.
Confidence · HighFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, from how this wine is made, the rules of its appellation, UK duty and VAT and the price shops charge for it today. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumThe drinking years for the main offer apply to the wine in that offer. Treat them as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumMarca Oro, Valdo and the Valdobbiadene hills
Common Questions
Yes, despite how it sounds. EU labelling rules put Brut under 12 grams of sugar a litre and Extra Dry at 12 to 17. So Extra Dry is the sweeter of the two. Valdo describes Marca Oro as leaving a light sweetness at the end.
The DOCG comes only from the hills of 15 villages between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, and the rules there cap the crop at 13.5 tonnes of grapes a hectare. Ordinary Prosecco DOC covers a far bigger area, much of it flat, and allows 18 tonnes. Those hills were made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2019.
Apple, acacia flowers and honey, with soft bubbles and a light sweetness at the end. Valdo calls it slim and gentle. At 11% alcohol it is lighter than most white wine.
Drink it. Valdo gives it three months in tank and two in bottle, then sells it, and it is at its best inside about 18 months. It has nothing to gain from being kept.
The magnum is. It costs about the same per litre as the standard bottle, or a shade less. The 3-litre jeroboam comes in a wooden box and costs clearly more per litre, so you pay extra for the box and the size. Today's price for each size is on this page.
Fried and salty things first: battered fish, arancini, gnocco fritto. Then shellfish and Venetian seafood, which is what Valdo suggests. It also handles a mild curry, because the sugar cools chilli heat.
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