ACTIVITIES & SERVICES
The Consortium’s Activities and Services
The Consortium’s Activities
The Protection Consortium has been for almost ninety years a witness and protagonist of the technical, economic and human journey of the viticulture world of the Langhe.
ACTIVITIES
Management and Registration of Collective Trademarks, Market Surveillance Activities
The Consortium carries out checks on products sold on the market: it takes samples of wines in commerce and verifies their actual compliance, including analytically, with the requirements established by the respective production disciplinary regulations.
In response to the numerous attempts at plagiarism and usurpation of protected wine names that have occurred in recent years, at the beginning of 2008 the Consortium launched, with the support of the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, a process aimed at creating a system of legally unimpeachable denomination safeguarding, also at the international level. The final step of this process is the registration of Barolo and Barbaresco as collective business trademarks in many countries of the world.
Collect wine samples and analyze the requirements
Safeguard the denominations
Register of Collective Trademarks
Collect wine samples and analyze the requirements
Safeguard the denominations
Collective Trademarks Register
ACTIVITIES
Denomination
Management
The Consortium carries out careful regulatory compliance work to meet the needs of producers, lobbying for laws to support the protection and origin of wines and proposing any amendments to the Production Regulations. In collaboration with Universities and Research Institutes, the Consortium is engaged in studies and experiments both in the viticultural and oenological fields.
Management also covers the assessment of any changes to vineyard yields or the suitability of individual vintages, evaluating actions in agreement with the Piedmont Region, which may issue the necessary regulatory decrees. During the harvest season and in collaboration with other Professional Bodies such as ‘Vignaioli Piemontesi’ and trade associations, precise monitoring work on grape ripeness is carried out, helping producers in their decision-making and contributing to the maintenance of an archive of historical records that are important for knowledge of the sector. Another area of operation of great relevance concerns the definition and delimitation of production areas that are more restricted than the Denomination itself (the Additional Geographical Mentions, the MGAs).
Regulatory alignment with producers’ needs
Viticultural and oenological research
Proposal of harvest measures
Monitoring grape ripening
Definition of Additional Geographical Indications (AGI)
Management of vineyard areas
ACTIVITIES
Data Collection, market Statistics and Assistance to member companies
This activity is carried out through data provided by the Certification Body Valoritalia and involves periodic publications for the benefit of both Wineries and the general and specialist Press. The precise collection of data provides, in fact, an indispensable support in choosing the most appropriate strategies to adopt in the management of the denominations and in promotion. The Consortium also offers its members a support service in the field of wine-growing regulations, from vineyard to bottle, regarding the regulatory obligations that wineries must address, as well as promptly communicating any changes.
Periodic publication of market data by Valoritalia
Data to guide management and promotion strategies
Regulatory support for members on wine-related obligations
Timely communication of regulatory changes
ACTIVITIES
Promotion
The Consortium provides information and material to the national and international press, sector opinion leaders, institutions and consumers. Also through collaboration with other bodies, the Consortium organises numerous promotional initiatives and events.
Consortium Services
The Consortium collaborates with various technical partners such as Enocontrol and Valoritalia to guarantee comprehensive consultancy.
Services
Enocontrol – Chemical-physical analysis laboratory
Enocontrol is a laboratory for chemical-physical and sensory analysis, research, technical assistance in oenological production and the development of the self-monitoring and hygiene system for food production processes (HACCP). Its role is to carry out analyses on grapes, must and wine, at the service of producers and quality.
Services
Valoritalia – Denomination Certification
The Denominations are subject to a ministerial control system that, through the mechanism of numbered strips printed by the State Printing Office, guarantees consumers the traceability of products. The actors involved in these activities are the Province of Cuneo (which issues authorisations for vineyard planting and the relevant registration in the Company File at the Piedmont Region), the chosen Certification Body – currently Valoritalia – which makes use of the collaboration of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture for the conduct of Tasting Commissions.
Contact us to find out more about our activities and services
Contact us!
Tel. 0173 441074
