“Vignaioli Valle di Mezzane”: this is the name chosen for the Group in which 13 producers from the Eastern Veronese area, between the Valpolicella and Soave wine appellations, have come together. Thirteen farms that live and work in the Mezzane Valley whose identity they intend to enhance.
Common denominator of the 13 winemakers is to be farms with their own wineries and vineyards in Valle di Mezzane, producing Doc Valpolicella and/or Soave wines from this area of eastern Verona that straddles the two important appellations of origin.
The 13 Farms have different histories, origins, goals, ambitions and orientations even in vineyard management – in organic, biodynamic and integrated – and around this project they intend to amalgamate, get to know each other, help each other, have fun, improve themselves while respecting their identities and deepen together the knowledge of their production territory.
The Soil Map
The first step in achieving this latest goal was the commissioning of pedologist Giuseppe Benciolini, already the author of similar mapping for wine zoning projects in several areas, including Soave, Valpolicella, Prosecco, Cartizze and Lambrusco Reggiano, to create Soil Maps for the Group’s companies.
Soil maps, are an important tool for define the management of the vineyard, orient it more and more to the quality of the grapes, and today they take on additional significance to cope with and better interpret climate change and thus the vintage, safeguard the land and Know the peculiarities and differences between the Mezzane Valley and the other valleys and areas of the Valpolicella and Soave DOCs.
Through the enhancement and study of viticulture, the Group supports and urges the Consortium for the Protection of Valpolicella Wines In the project of defining sub-areas in the Valpolicella DOC (8,617 hectares of vineyards-source Regional Databases) in areas that reflect the morphology of the land, different climates and soils. This is a very important project for the thirteen Mezzane Valley companies aimed at increasingly highlighting the differences between the different valleys and to all have more identity within the important Veronese appellation.
A path to professional growth
In addition to its activities to promote the wines and the Mezzane Valley area, the group will also have a professional growth path which will cover technical aspects of viticulture, winemaking, comparisons with productions from other wine-growing areas, as well as insights about important issues such as gender equality in agriculture and sustainability projects to live in harmony with the people of the area.
In short, the Vignaioli della Valle di Mezzane set themselves, with respect for their territory and the appellations that insist on it, as their primary objective the most intimate knowledge of their Companies, their Valley, its identity and its differences as a value to be brought to the world.
A number of Mezzane Valley Winemakers will be present at “Amarone Opera Prima,” an event of the Consortium for the Protection of Valpolicella Wines to be held Feb. 3 and 4, 2014, at the Palazzo della Gran Guardia in Verona.
The 13 farms of the Vignaioli Valle di Mezzane
Benini Alessandro; Marinella Camerani; Falezze di Luca Anselmi; Grotta del Ninfeo; I Tamasotti; Il Monte Caro; ILatium Morini; Le Guaite di Noemi; Talestri; Massimago; Carlo Alberto Negri; Roccolo Grassi; Giovanni Ruffo.
