It is a cultural project that has always accompanied the life of the association since its foundation and which reaches an important milestone in 2025.
Below we report the Competition Announcement which illustrates the participation methods and
information related to the general section and special sections.
The Call is published in the spring, the deadline is set for next June 30th.
The Competition confirms its usual objectives that are renewed every year and always measure themselves with new protagonists: to increase the culture of consumption of quality wines and contribute, through the theme of narration, to enhance the history, traditions, landscape, socio-cultural events of the wine territories.
The themes of the environment and sustainability characterize the general section and one of the special prizes of the Competition, in a renewed language that takes into account the new challenges to look forward to.
THE COMPETITION NOTICE
“Drink the territory”
NATIONAL LITERARY COMPETITION
1. The XXIV edition of the literary competition “Bere il Territorio” is promoted by the Go Wine Association.
Participants will have to write a free-form story, from which emerge the cultural significance of the vine and wine, their value at a social level, the role that viticulture has played or could play in the conservation of the environment, the rural landscape, the culture and local traditions.
There are two categories, based on distinct age groups:
a) young people aged 16 to 24;
b) for all persons over 24 years of age.
2. Each competitor or group may participate with a single unpublished work, in Italian, with a minimum length of two pages (3600 characters) and a maximum of 5 pages (9000 characters).
3. Furthermore, alongside the general competition, a special section reserved for students of university degree courses in Oenology and Viticulture in Italy is established.
Papers and/or degree theses will be selected that, through research work, deal with and explore themes regarding native vines.
Participation in the Competition is open to individual students or small groups of no more than 5 people. The papers must have the same length as indicated in art. 2, except for exceptions dictated by the research work they are called to do.
4. Each text must contain, at the bottom, the personal details of the competitor: name, surname, date of birth, address, telephone number and the reference of the agricultural institute or university to which he belongs (for the special section of art. 3).
5. The papers must be received via PDF file by 30 June 2025 , by electronic submission via certified email to the following address:
gowine@legalmail.it .
Alternatively, they can be sent in three typewritten copies and on magnetic media by post to the following address:
“Drink the territory” competition - Go Wine Via Vida, 6 - 12051 Alba (Cn).
6. The works will be submitted to the scrutiny of a jury composed of Gianluigi Beccaria and Valter Boggione (University of Turin), Margherita Oggero (writer), Bruno Quaranta (La Repubblica), Massimo Corrado (Go Wine Association).
7. THE TWO BEST TEXTS will be selected from the general section, one for each category: the winners will each receive a prize of €500.00.
7a). THE TWO BEST RESEARCH WORKS will be selected from the special section reserved for students of the Degree courses in Viticulture and Oenology: the winners (or the group) of the special section will each receive a prize of €500.00.
8. A special award is established for wine-growing companies that have distinguished themselves by safeguarding the territorial heritage, with a view to enhancing the landscape, with the use of the natural environment, aimed at stimulating cultural, tourist, social and economic development. All this while pursuing sustainability actions in compliance with fair and “green” development models, with implications also on the social level.
9. A special prize is also established for a book published during the years 2024-2025 that has wine as its theme or that, in any case, reserves special attention to wine.
The author will receive a cash prize of €500.00.
10. The texts will remain at the disposal of the competition organization and will not be returned. The competitors, by accepting unconditionally the present regulation, grant, from now and without claiming anything, the rights of publication to Go Wine.
11. The winners, who will be notified by registered mail, will be awarded during the ceremony to be held at Grinzane Cavour Castle on Saturday 27 September 2025.
12. The decisions of the jury, which will select the works, are final.
13. For anything not provided for in this regulation, decisions are made independently by the competition secretariat.
