valli unite
“We believe natural vinification is a social responsibility”
Domaine Overview
Year Founded: 1970's
Winemaker: Cooperative
Location: Tortona Hills, SE Piedmonte
Size: 20 hectares
Grapes:
Barbera, Dolcetto, Cortese, Croatina
Farming: Certified Organic (ICEA)
Production: About 20,000 bottles/year
In southeast Piemonte, Valli Unite is one of Italy’s first natural wine cooperatives created in the 70’s. Vineyards lie amid beehives, farm animals, orchards, and truffle-filled woodlands. From honey to homemade salame, and wine in-between, 30 members work on the 100-hectare farm and call it home. During harvest, you can still stomp grapes with your bare feet here.
Born from the strong determination of 3 auto-tone young farmers to resist land abandonment and stay in agriculture, joined very soon form people with different cultures, study, and professional skills, to enable a different lifestyle, where income is not the main value. Valli Unite today is a group of 35 people, working 100 hectares, 25 at the vineyard the rest pasture, forage, cereals, vegetable garden, and wood. Winemaking is the main economy branch with deep farmers’ roots, year-after-year harvest experience, and new knowledge. Natural vinification has been the consequence of our nature, in the belief that wine has the expression of our land, the flavor of our white clay, the sense of being farmers, sociality, music, and art. Colli Tortonesi gives Barbera, Timorasso, Dolcetto, Croatina, Cortese grapes and a bunch of small varieties such as Moretto. member of Vinnatur
