To let the general public discover mountain wines produced between 400 and 800 meters above sea level in vineyards with environmental and naturalistic value, as well as a high landscape impact. Tomorrow and Sunday the “Vini all’insù 2024” exhibition organized by the Chisone and Germanasca Valleys Municipal Union in collaboration with the Pinerolese DOC Consortium and Ais Piemonte will be held in the Turin area. A way to celebrate “heroic” crops, companies that try to give life back to impervious terrain by carrying out research on ancient varieties. There are small companies present that share the same love for the authenticity of the crops and the recovery of ancient native varieties of the Alpine arc. Villa Willy in Perosa Argentina, from 10am to 7pm, presents a market exhibition with tasting stands of 35 producers from five regions – Piedmont, Liguria, Valle d’Aosta, Veneto, Lombardy and Tuscany: in addition to the Pinerolese area, realities from from the Canavese area, from the Susa Valley, but also from the Valtellina, from the Alta Langa, from the Alessandrino Monferrato. Among the gems, the wine produced on Monte Amiata (with the La Pescinella company of Grosseto) and those made with the vines of Valtelllina, with the Le Strie agricultural company which offers Valtellina Superiore docg, Sforzato di Valtellina docg, Rosso di Valtellina doc, Rhaetian Alps Nebbiolo Igt. From Liguria, however, come bottles that derive from rediscovered native varieties: Moscatello di Taggia and Vermentino delle Cinque Terre. There is no shortage of labels produced on the Novara hills, in the Saluzzo area, such as Chatus and Pelaverga. In the front row, there are the wines of Pinerolo, with 13 companies. The Terre del Ramìe Producers Consortium was present. Ramìe is in fact an example of heroic viticulture: it is produced only in the municipalities of Perosa Argentina and Pomaretto, thanks to vineyards at altitude (between 600 and 900 metres), along extremely steep slopes (greater than 35 percent) characterized by terraces dry which were cultivated already in the Middle Ages. Vineyards that require a lot of work, because if one hectare of vineyard on the plain requires more or less 100 hours a year, on a steep slope, it requires 600 to 1200 hours of labor per year. Together with the Consortium, there will then be Cantina Dellerba, Giro di Vite, Refourn, Vin del Roc, Scuola Malva, Countadin, La Chabranda, Pizzini, Autin, Beltramo, Ognissanti. There is no shortage of themed tastings while guided tours of the heroic vineyards of Pomaretto are organized tomorrow and Sunday afternoon. (redm)
Right in the Pinerolo area, “Giro di Vite” – an agricultural company founded in 2018 by Luca Ciardossin, a former architect born in 1989 who, after having traveled the world, returned to cultivate his grandparents’ vineyards, and his sister Lisa, born in 1987, who worked in a biscuit factory – was awarded for Italy at the 31st edition of the Mondial des vins extremes, the only international competition organized by Cervim Viticoltura eroica (acronym which stands for “Centre for research, studies, protection, coordination and valorisation for mountain viticulture”) and dedicated to wines produced in areas characterized by heroic viticulture. (4 May – red)
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