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Botticino: a small DOC area adjacent to Brescia and famous in the world for its marble, also used for the construction of the White House and the Altare della Patria in Rome. Here the vineyards clinging to the sunny slopes of the pre–Alps heroically survive the urban pressure, protecting the environment and the inestimable heritage of tradition and culture related to wine.
The warm climate and the favorable soil exposures create the perfect environment for the production of red wines of great structure, suitable for the medium aging and rich and savory food, such as game and roasts.
Botticino is obtained from a careful blend of Barbera (min. 30%), a widespread grape variety in the world for its positive attitude to aging and the structure that confers, Marzemino (min. 20%), a local variety which contributes significantly to the color, the aroma typicality and the body, Sangiovese (min. 10%), the most widespread grape variety in Italy, providing pleasant aromatic elegance and softness to the taste, and Schiava Gentile in small percentage (min. 10%) to add a touch of freshness.
The best lots of Botticino can acquire the designation of Reserve if aged, also in oak barrels, for at least two years.
Nowadays, the ancient wine tradition is supported by the presence of the Voluntary Consortium of the San Colombano DOC Wines, founded 1987 when, in front of the notary Oscar Lagan, 18 manufacturers, owners of the most important companies in the hill towns, signed the constitution act to protect, promote and defend the production and marketing of wine with a designation of origin. It also performs promotional activities and of rigorous control, both administrative and chemical–organoleptic, of the wines of the producer members, rewarding them for quality assurance, after passing the exam of control, with the mark of the Consortium representing Saint Columban.
In recent years, the Consortium has carried out an important promotional activity. The presence of San Colombano DOC wine in local and regional events helped to raise awareness of a reality with good wine tourism potentials to develop and harmonize, and where the wine–making farms play an important role.
The Consortium for the Protection of the Valtellina Wines, founded in 1976, since 1997 has been representing all the wine houses and wineries in the province of Sondrio and now the only Italian Consortium that can boast two D.O.C.G. coincident for territory and grapes, on Valtellina Superiore and Sforzato di Valtellina, carried out the activity of control until July 2009. Its aims include also aspects closely linked to the territory, as evidenced by the recent establishment of the Provinea Foundation for the Protection of the terraces in Valtellina. This concept is also found in the dual mission, represented by the enhancement and promotion of the wine of Valtellina in Italy and abroad as a symbol of a territory, and by the protection of the wine culture in Valtellina, an essential element for the protection of an area considered among the most fascinating in the world.
The Consortium for the Protection of Valcalepio, founded in 1977 by 22 members, today has 86 members and includes more or less 98% of the Valcalepio producers. The Consortium is non– profit and was established to protect, enhance and defend the production and trade of the wines of the Controlled Designation of Origin Valcalepio.
The production area of Valcalepio is located in the province of Bergamo, and is included in the hilly area that stretches from Lake Como to Lake Iseo.
The ampelographical range of Bergamo is definitely vast and varied. The most important varieties are:
white grape varieties: Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Manzoni White, Yellow Muscat;
black grape varieties: Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Barbera, Incrocio Terzi n.1, Franconia, Marzemino, Lombard Schiava, Merano Schiava, Scanzo Muscat.
Even some native varieties survive, such as: Merera, Altulina, Gafforella and others that remind us of the historicity of the local viticulture.
In April of 1959 what would later become the Consortium for the Protection of the Oltrepò Pavese Wines started to operate.
Everything began from a conference at the end of which it was decided to lay the foundations for an organization of producers. Even at that time the importance to create sharing, to look to the future, to defend an identity was understood. Everything started from an association of producers, officially established on August 4th, 1960 (ten years before the Doc), which was designed to enhance and protect the wines of Oltrepò Pavese. Its slogan was: Here the wine wine.
In 1977, the Consortium became Oltrepò Pavese DOC wines Voluntary Consortium and had as its first president Antonio Giuseppe Denari, illustrious and visionary protagonist of one of the most important historical moments of the wine production of the Oltrepò area. Since then, the consortium has expanded its areas of intervention, in cooperation with institutional bodies starting from the Ministry of Agriculture.
Among its actions of protection of the Oltrepò wines, the Consortium fights for the protection of the products and their quality, with particular attention to their origin. No coincidence that from the 2007 harvest the Metodo Classico bubbles of Oltrepà Pavese obtained the DOCG. Today the Consortium helps manufacturers to explore new scenarios, making communication and marketing, exporting the territorial that the Oltrepò wine can express. With this purpose, they have developed targeted communications campaigns, and others are under study.
The consortium produces events and tastings but is also co–protagonist of events on a local, regional, national and international levels.
Oltrepò Pavese is a designation spread over 13,500 hectares of land.
The Colli Mantovani DOC Consortium is placed in a land of famous battles and a cultural meeting point between Veneto and Lombardy.
The moraine hills of Mantua are located at the foot of the hills, which border with the provinces of Brescia and Verona, crossed by the river Mincio and extend to the south of Lake Garda. The geography of the area of the Colli Mantovani DOC Consortium, the mild and ventilated climate for the influence of the lake, the nature of the moraine and clayey soil form an ideal environment for the vine.
Today more than a thousand hectares of specialized vineyards cover the hilly area in the municipalities of Ponti sul Mincio, Monzambano, Volta Mantovana, Cavriana, Solforino and Castiglione delle Siviere.
The Garda Colli Mantovani Wine has gained the recognition of the DOC in 1976.
In this area the local wineries produce, in addition to the Garda Colli Mantovano DOC and the Garda DOC, also Sparkling wine, Raisin wine.
Founded in 1990 as a supervision, protection and promotion institute, the Consortium for the Protection of Lugana performs a systematic and intense activity for the protection and enhancement of the designation of origin.
The Consortium for the Protection is also promoter of communication and enhancement of the Lugana brand through the participation in the most important national and international fairs and the organization of events designed to raise awareness of the image and the quality of Lugana.
The Consortium is also responsible for safeguarding the Lugana from unfair competition and market fluctuations.
In this regard, the Consortium has long waged a battle against the temptation, in a time of crisis like the one that is gripping the world today, of "falling prices" that would undermine the quality of the product and debase the image of the designation.
Founded in 1967, the "Lugana" designation of controlled origin was the first recognized in Lombardy and one of the first in Italy, reflecting the historical and inseparable bond between this white wine and its territory.
The Consortium for the protection of Franciacorta with its unmistakable logo – a crenellated “F”, the symbol of the ancient medieval towers that characterize the area, was founded on March 5th, 1990 in Corte Franca, in the province of Brescia, as aggregation of a group of winemakers who shared passion and common stimuli, primarily interested in the protection, enhancement and promotion of the Franciacorta wine–growing and of the territory as a whole. It is an inter–professional organization, independent, able to provide the support services, of image, of aggregation, strong and equal for all.
To the Consortium, which since 1993 has its headquarters in Erbusco, in the heart of Franciacorta, the three professional categories of growers, winemakers and bottlers who are interested in the production chain of the designations Franciacorta DOCG, Curtefranca DOC and Sebino IGT adhere. There are companies of all sizes, from small, family–run businesses, to structured and well–known in the world companies. The member companies of the Consortium of Franciacorta represent almost the totality of those active in the area and are on the market especially with the main product of this wine–growing area: Franciacorta, the first and the only Italian brut produced exclusively with the second fermentation in the bottle to have obtained from 1st September 1995 the DOCG, the Designation of Controlled and Guaranteed Origin.
Ente Vini Bresciani represents and manages the general interests of the common D.O.P. Garda Classico, Valtnesi, Garda Bresciano, S. Martino della Battaglia, Botticino, Capriano del Colle, Cellatica and finally I.G.P. Valcamonica, Ronchi di Brescia, Benaco Bresciano and Montenetto di Brescia.
Together with the associated Consortia (Botticino Consortium, Cellatica Consortium, Valtnesi/Garda Classico Consortium, Montenetto/Capriano del Colle Consortium and Valcamonica I.G.T. Consortium), where everyone maintains autonomy and individuality, and also thanks to the fundamental consociation with the Chamber of Commerce of Brescia, Ente Vini Bresciani manages the policy of the Designations and takes care of the Specifications, promotes the knowledge of the Wines and their aware consumption enhancing their territories of origin, their history and their ability to interpret the present and the future with the style of each single company in the respect for tradition.
Thanks to the experience gained in over 40 years of activity, Ente Vini Bresciani has employed highly experienced and trained in the wine sector operators and, directly or in cooperation with public institutions such as the Province of Brescia, research organizations such as the Provincial Wine Center or Regional Consortia in the wine sector like AS.CO.VI.LO, offers to the Consortia of Wine Protection qualified performances for the realization of informative activities promoted by the Consortia themselves.
Ente Vini Bresciani, for some promotional activities, works directly with the Franciacorta Consortium and the Lugana Consortium.
To promote the compliance with the provisions of law contained in the product specification, the Consortium of winemakers, existing since 1923, in 1978 was transformed into the Voluntary Consortium for the Protection of the Santa Maddalena Wine Production.
The tasks of the Consortium continues to be the maintenance of the characteristics of the Santa Maddalena DOC, the control of its quality, as well as the consolidation and promotion of sales. Currently, 200 growers in the production area are members of the consortium.
Campagne De Vilmont is a line of champagne of Vinicola Serena, result of the purchase of the Maison De Vilmont in France situated in the famous Montagne de Reims within the prestigious area of the Premiere Cru in Rilly la Montagne.
The Friuli Latisana D.O.C. Consortium employs the collaboration of technicians who follow the production of wine in all its stages: from the planting of the cuttings up to the stage of bottling, ensuring in this way even to the smallest farms to obtain a superior quality.
The production area of Friuli Latisana includes approximately 370 hectares of specialized vineyards, grown mainly with Casarsa method, and in some cases more recent installations, with spurred cordon.
The Consortium for the Protection of the Friuli Annia D.O.C. Wines is newly established and provides in its statute, as the primary objective, to the qualitative growth of its vineyards and its wines.
The constant specialization has led the production in this region to an optimal balance between the best quality and peculiarity of identification, meeting the consensus of the most careful consumers.
Friuli Annia is the most recent designation created in Friuli Venezia Giulia, approved by the Decree of 27th October 1995.
The area with Designation of Controlled Origin Friuli Annia is crossed by the ancient consular road Via Annia, built by the Roman praetor Titus Annius Rufus in 131 BC, the road that connected the early Christian big town of Aquileia to Iulia Concordia, now Concordia Sagittaria. The Via Annia was connected, then, to the important Via Emilia.
The seventies and eighties of the twentieth century marked a turning point for the Friulian winemaking: from an economy of consumption mostly local to a more wide–ranging conception of a wine product.
The young producers of the Isonzo area are among the first to catch the wind of change and to operate in their territory a further leap in quality, through the fundamental choices in the field:
significant investments to improve the quality of processes and products;
the comparison among producers, to stimulate a continuous innovation on the technical side and on the enhancement of the product;
the opening to the outside, to learn about other experiences and tackle new markets.
Commitment, dynamism and rationality allow the rapid development of a cutting–edge viticulture, which acts as a flywheel to the local economy and helps to shape the landscape of Isonzo. Passion, efficiency, innovation become the decisive factors of rebirth.
On 23rd November 1972, the consortium was formed by notarial deed signed by sixteen founding members and, in 1974, the different activities officially began.
The Consortium has, among its main goals, the protection, enhancement and promotion of the Designation, the area and the wines produced.
The numerous accolades obtained in recent years are the result of several factors: the rationality of the new facilities, the modern cultivation and winery techniques, the selection of the most suited varieties to the growing environment and the foresight of the producers.
They, correctly interpreting the spirit of the Designation, chose mainly quality, enhancing in this way their production and contributing to the growth and spread of the D.O.C. Friuli Grave.
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Brescia (Brescia)
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Via Ricetto 20078
San Colombano al Lambro (Milano)
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Via Piazzi, 23 23100
Sondrio (Sondrio)
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Via Bergamo, 10 24060
San Paolo d'Argon (Bergamo)
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P.za Vittorio Veneto, 24 27043
Broni (Pavia)
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Via Calvi, 28 46100
Mantova (Mantova)
The Colli Mantovani DOC Consortium is placed in a land of famous battles and a cultural meeting point between Veneto and Lombardy. The moraine hills of Mantua are located at the foot of the...
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Parco Catullo, 4 37019
Peschiera del Garda (Verona)
Founded in 1990 as a supervision, protection and promotion institute, the Consortium for the Protection of Lugana performs a systematic and intense activity for the protection and enhancement of...
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Via G. Verdi, 53 25030
Erbusco (Brescia)
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V.le della Bornata, 110 25123
Brescia (Brescia)
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Via Alto Adige, 60 39100
Bolzano (Bolzano)
To promote the compliance with the provisions of law contained in the product specification, the Consortium of winemakers, existing since 1923, in 1978 was transformed into the Voluntary...
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Via C. Bianchi, 1 31015
Conegliano (Treviso)
Campagne De Vilmont is a line of champagne of Vinicola Serena, result of the purchase of the Maison De Vilmont in France situated in the famous Montagne de Reims within the prestigious area of...
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Via Poscolle, 6 33100
Udine (Udine)
The Friuli Latisana D.O.C. Consortium employs the collaboration of technicians who follow the production of wine in all its stages: from the planting of the cuttings up to the stage of bottling,...
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Via Poscolle, 6 33100
Udine (Udine)
The Consortium for the Protection of the Friuli Annia D.O.C. Wines is newly established and provides in its statute, as the primary objective, to the qualitative growth of its vineyards and its...
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Via Gramsci, 2 - 4 34071
Cormons (Gorizia)
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Via A. Boito, 37, Fraz. Corva 33082
Azzano Decimo (Pordenone)
On 23rd November 1972, the consortium was formed by notarial deed signed by sixteen founding members and, in 1974, the different activities officially began. The Consortium has, among its main...
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