Our MEMBERS FROM ITALY
The Old Vine Conference member community encompasses producers, distributors, generic bodies, and private individuals. Membership of The Old Vine Conference is an impactful way to safeguard global old vine heritage, and its priceless ecological and cultural value. In return, Members are able to showcase their wines and projects to our influential and uniquely engaged audience through exposure at conferences, inclusion in media, and at tastings and events.
Malvirà’s 6 hectare Renesio vineyard is 50+ years old and planted to the region’s flagship grape varieties: Arneis and Nebbiolo.
Many old vineyards worked by Zýmē have been spared from being ‘grubbed up’ thanks to Celestino Gaspari’s commitment to pay above the asking price for the grapes.
Animaetnea is home to century old vineyards of Nerello Mascalese, Carricante and Minnella, planted to the traditional alberello training system, typical of Etna.
Casata Mergè’s 5 hectares of heritage vines were planted in 1970 to a rare form of trellising known as the GDC training system.
San Leonardo preserves the quality and the identity of their heritage Carmènere via massal selection.
Fattoria Fibbiano is home to one of the oldest Sangiovese vineyards in Tuscany. The vineyard is named Ceppatella.
“Vigna dell’Impero” (Vineyard of the Empire) is Tenuta Sette Ponti’s oldest vineyard which is home to an ancient and unique Sangiovese clone, planted in 1935.
Vallepicciola’s prize vineyard originates from a massal selection of Sangiovese planted over 50 years ago.
“The synergy of tradition, innovation and soils are the perfect combination to enhance the resilience of our old vines..”
Alta Mora is a project the Cusumano family embarked on with the aim of creating wines from heritage vineyards that express the quality and character of a unique and ancient land.
I Custodi, as the Italian name suggests, are the ‘guardians’ of Mt. Etna’s vineyards, safeguarding the traditions of its viticulture and people.
"El Zeremia" is an historic estate of 1.5ha of 120 y/o Groppello di Revò vines in northern Italy’s Val di Non in the province of Trentino .
Cantina Roeno’s pre-phylloxera vineyards date back to 1865 and include a rare and very old red grape variety
Enantio.
Sardinia is home to an extraordinary number of native grape varieties. Argiolas has traced 11 of them on the island and created the first regional biodiversity field, which includes 5,000 plants.
Col d’Orcia’s oldest plot of Sangiovese vines was planted by Count Alberto dating back to 1980 and represents their top of the range single vineyard Poggio al Vento label of Brunello di Montalcino.
Gini’s vineyards are thought to be some of the oldest in the Soave Classico DOCG in Veneto.
Together with his two young sons Simone and Andrea, Salvo Foti manages a small consortium, I Vigneri, on Etna, Sicily.
Villa Bogdano's beautiful Venetian estate is home to some of Italy's most historical vineyards. Among them lies 117 very old and rare Tocai Friulano vines dating back to the end of the 19th century. These ancient plants are of significant interest to viticulturalists and winemakers worldwide and thanks to a meticulous recovery operation they are still in production.
Based in Irpinia in Campania, Italy, Feudi di San Gregorio is a leader in the Italian movement to protect, preserve and make wines from old vines. Led by Antonio Capaldo this family winery has been making and bottling old vine wines consistently since 1986 and they were one of the first wineries in Italy to do so.