VINCHIO VAGLIO: THE NEST OF BARBERA The name results from both Vinchio and Vaglio Serra villages where nineteen vine growers used to live and founded the cooperative in 1959. We are located in Piedmont, Monferrato, core zone of UNESCO World Heritage Patrimony, right at the foot of the Alps. Nowadays the cooperative represents nearly 200 family vine growers who take daily care of 500 hectares mostly planted in Barbera grapes (70% of our production) and all other indigenous grapes from Piedmont such as Nebbiolo, Dolcetto, Ruché, Albarossa, Grignolino, Arneis, Cortese, Moscato and Brachetto and other famous international grapes such as Pinot Nero, Sauvignon and Chardonnay. 

Our territory is characterized by a distinctive terroir of calcareous soils and sandy soils in Vinchio and mostly clay soils in Vaglio Serra what makes the Barbera of Vinchio Vaglio unique for the structure (white soils), elegance (sandy soils) and aromas (clay soils). The winery mixes very traditional viticultural methods, like manual work in the vineyards including hand harvesting with modern practices, such as temperature controlled stainless steel tanks, solar panels and a high tech bottling line. 

In 1987, the winery has a visionary project to maintain and protect the oldest vineyards of minimum 50 years vines of Barbera from which the brand Vigne Vecchie born. Nowadays, the cooperative is part of a unique and international network established by UK MW the so called The Old Vine Conference.

Our winery is surrounded by the path of the nests, “il sentiero dei nidi”, that opens onto the Natural Reserve of Val Sarmassa, an incredible overview of our landscape and biodiversity mixing steep slopes hills vineyards, woods, hazelnut trees and asparagus cultivation.

VINCHIO VAGLIO – VINCHIO (AT)

Established:1959

President: Lorenzo Giordano

Managing Director: Marco Giordano

Winemakers:Giuseppe Rattazzo - Matteo Laiolo

Region:Piedmont
Zones: Monferrato 

Appellations: DOCG - Barbera d’Asti, Nizza, Barolo, Barbaresco, Alta Langa, Moscato d’Asti, Ruchè ; DOC - Barbera del Monferrato DOC, Piemonte DOC, Langhe DOC

Hectares of vineyard: 500

Wines: I Tre Vescovi, Vigne Vecchie 50, Vigne Vecchie Superiore, Laudana, Sei Vigne Insynthesis.

“How many vineyards did our ancestors pluck from the woods, choosing the most exposed hilltops and slopes so that the grapes that yielded good wine would ripen perfectly? Thousands of arms, mattocks, ‘zapponi’ and shovels contributed to this colossal work, in years without any written records, when very active, frenetic peasants, capable of the miracles created by necessity, uprooted enormous trees, planting Barberas capable of withstanding the drought of the shell-full sands and steep slopes and producing unparalleled grapes” - Franco Laiolo, writer from Vinchio.