Feudi’s deep-rooted feeling of responsibility for the land and the guardianship of its ancient vines stretches to neighbouring plots owned and farmed by an aging local community.

It still surprises me how far off the radar the old vine wines and regions of South America are. As the oldest wine continent of the New World, grapevines and wine production made their way to the Americas over 500 years ago.

Hungary is a country of culture and tradition. Hand made food (cheese, honey, homemade jam or pasta and pretty much any delicacy one can think of) and wine, of course, has always been a big part of the culture and business as usual.

Thousands of years of wine history and the claim that ancient Greeks were the first to institute a wine culture could make Greece the place to look when seeking wines from old vines.

"The vineyards are the fruit of a centuries-old culture that has remained almost unchanged…which was in danger of being abandoned because it no longer created income"

Umay Çeviker on his ‘stealth’ project to save Turkey’s native old vine heritage

We had an incredible response to the first Old Vine Conference. We had over five hundred guests from more than twenty countries, twenty-one (and counting) pieces of coverage, and (in the two weeks since) hundreds of emails from old vine champions all over the world.