Consorzio
Piemonte Obertengo was created in
the month of June 1999 by seventeen
signatory agricultural holdings
representing the total number of
Curone, Grue and Ossona valley quality
wine producers in the province of
Alessandria.
The aim of the Consortium, created
on a non-profit basis, can be briefly
described as follows:
- To protect, promote,
organize and stimulate production
and marketing activities of
wines as well as of “wine-growing”
materials and equipments, in
correlation with the intervention
programs of Piedmont Region,
Provincial Administration, Upland
Authority Association and transnational
entities.
- To comply with
the quality standards and the
disciplinary proceedings set
by the European Union.
- To stimulate
the circulation and the promotion
of Consortium members’
products.
- To promote and
organize training courses and
activities in order to highlight
the sources of each agricultural
holding.
As
far as this is concerned, in the
last years the Consortium undertook
initiatives for social, promotional
and communication purposes, and
purchased equipments for shared
use by Consortium members (such
as, for example, the isobaric machine
for the production of lively wines,
the bottling machine for front and
back labels, the nitrogen generator
etc.), with important investments
and excellent results for this sector
qualitative growth, and attention
paid to the homogeneity of the products
offered and sold.
To
date, the number of Consortium members
increased and several applications
of admission are under discussion.
Consortium members own a total surface
of about 250 hectares and put on
the market about 500.000 bottles,
almost entirely having a “registered
designation of origin” and
constant high quality, devoting
themselves in particular to autochthonous
vineyards.
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