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Meet Our New Regional Ambassador
Victoria Daskal, France
Victoria Daskal is passionate about sharing the world of wine through the lens of history, culture, and the arts. She is a wine writer, educator, and consultant with over 15 years of experience in the international wine industry.
A regular contributor to leading wine publications, including Decanter and the Financial Times, Victoria also serves as a judge at international wine competitions and advises emerging global wine brands.
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Member Spotlight
Azienda Agricola Faraone, Abruzzo, Italy
Azienda Agricola Faraone has built its identity around the preservation of old vineyards and the protection of a distinctly territorial expression of Montepulciano, with its heart lying in three hectares of historic pergola-trained vineyards planted in 1962 and the 1980s that give shape to the winery’s most iconic wines.
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Latest Press Release
Old Vine Photography Competition 2026: Shortlist Revealed at Heritage Showcase
The Old Vine Conference announced the shortlist for its inaugural Old Vine Photography Competition at the Heritage Showcase tasting on 8th June 2026. The 21 shortlisted images were exhibited in a pop-up gallery at the event and voting is now open via the oldvines.org website until the 8th July 2026.
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An engaging and ambitious annual campaign designed to raise the profile of old vines globally, supporting the commercial efforts of old vine wine producers, marketers, communicators, importers and distributors.
The Conference Archives
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Hosts Sarah Abbott MW, Tim Atkin MW and Dr. Jamie Goode talked with each guest, exploring why they have been inspired to protect and promote old vine heritage. Each speaker had a different perspective but together their experience and vision expresses the multi-nuanced and unique value of great old vines.
Our aim was to arrive at practical steps we can implement together to (ultimately) help establish Old Vine Wine from heritage vineyards as a global wine category.
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We continue to shine a light on the passion, quality and depth that old vine heritage brings to every region and country that celebrates it. In this respect, you can highlight any extraordinary producer working with old vineyards in this way. They can be famous or cult or even unheard of - if they’re doing great work, then bring them in.
A focus for this conference is the value of old vines as genetic arks of diversity, nuance and resilience. -
The third edition of The Old Vine Conference explored how the wine industry can work to halt the loss of old vines by taking practical steps to create a new category of heritage vineyard wine.
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Join us to hear from an inspiring line-up of old vine pioneers, thought leaders, academics, environmentalists, winemakers, viticulturalists, and commercial & marketing specialists. Come away with invaluable insight on the subject of old vines from around the world and a renewed understanding of why now is the time for old vines and their wines.
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Join us to hear from an inspiring line-up of old vine pioneers, thought leaders, academics, environmentalists, winemakers, viticulturalists, and commercial & marketing specialists. Gain invaluable insight on the subject of old vines from around the world and a deeper understanding of how we can learn from the past to build for the future.
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Join us to hear from an inspiring line-up of old vine pioneers, thought leaders, academics, environmentalists, winemakers, viticulturalists, and commercial & marketing specialists. Gain invaluable insight on the subject of old vines from around the world and a deeper understanding of the role that old vines play in the wine industry's adaptation to climate change & sustainability.
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As a highly anticipated annual event in the global wine calendar the 7th edition of The Old Vine Conference will be the most significant event yet, in the journey of the global old vine movement. Meeting of the Minds will be an in-person series of tastings, seminars, panel debates, masterclasses and old-vine field-trips kicking off with a unique coming-together with The Global Wine Buyers Market place. The Old Vine Conference 2025, Meeting of The Minds, will draw an international audience of trade and media to discuss the most pressing issues facing the worlds old vines.
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