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Res Tipica - Anci
Città del Vino is the grounding member of the Italian Products Association.
Res Tipica is an Anci project (National Association of the Italian Municipalities), born to promote the territory and the local products. The main idea of Res Tipica is that market is a place of products exchange. Every product tells a story about its origin, its territory. That’s why Res Tipica stipulates agreements with trade associations, it applies for loans, it provides technical assistance to the Municipalities on projects and Communitarian and National notifications. There is still lot of work in progress, such as inquires, studies and researches within the territories of the member Municipalities, in order to publish movies, pics shows, cd-roms and web-pages.
Coldiretti
The agreement with Coldiretti was born formally to foster an eco-friend agricultural development in the rural zones, in order to safeguard the conditions of the farm growers. For what concerns wine, Coldiretti is committed with some initiatives about education and diet. The safeguard of environment and bio-diversities are two main topics, which Coldiretti and Città del Vino.
- from the cooperation with the Association it was born the Wine Tour Cup, the golf amateur competition on the greens of Città del Vino.
- they worked together to realized some surveys and meetings on the Methanol problem, setting a starting point for a new rebirth of the Italian wine.
Legambiente
Together with Legambiente, the Cities of Wine intend to realize some projects to defend and safeguard the high-risk soils and cultivations, against the risks caused by the utilization of GMOs. From this cooperation was born a very consistent group: The GMOs free Municipalities. The first Municipality to adhere was Greve in Chianti (Florence), where a road sign was planted, at the very entrance of the city. A real deed to foster the cohesion among those movements of citizens and consumers, who see in the GMOs a real hazard for our environment and for the local identities. The real enemy is the coexistence among different cultivations: it would be impossible to guarantee quality in that case, just because it would be difficult to separate different agricultural models, especially in Italy, where it already exists a huge property division.
Wine Tourism Movement
With the WTM, Città del Vino has been cooperated for ten years. They worked together above all for one of the most known summer initiatives: “Calici di Stelle” which takes place on the 10th of August. The agreement was set up to foster the participation of the WTM member companies, to take part to tastings and events. Every year more than 200 Municipalities are involved.
Symbola Foundation
Città del Vino is the grounding member of Symbola, Foundation for the Italian quality products.
Symbola wants to consolidate and spread the soft economy development model, where the territories meet companies, where alliances are made among knowledge, new technologies and tradition and where competitiveness is integrated with training, research, social cohesion and positive relationships with the community. Symbola gathers all those realities, who concentrate on high quality of the territory, in order to collect their experiences: personalities, who are coming from the economic and entrepreneurial world, from the active citizenship, the territories and institutions, from the world of culture. It is the Italian quality lobby: a new alliance, who speaks about policy, economy and institutions to direct the future of our country to quality and long-term development.
National Centre on Passito’s Wines Foundation
Città del Vino is the grounding member of the Foundation.
It is in Montefalco (Perugia). It was established to promote quality and knowledge about the Italian Passito’s Wines. Città del Vino and the municipality of Montefalco are the promoters of the initiative. The Centre is located in the former wine-cellars of Palazzo Santi-Gentili. Among its main aims: to register all the Italian Passitos and catalogue them on an historical, environmental, varietal, vine and oenological point of view; to realize a file; to improve the production, the enological and the conservation techniques; to foster the reform of the law nr. 164 on the Denomination of Origin, in order to better safeguard the Passito’s Wine.
Vinum Loci Committee
Città del Vino the grounding member of the Vinum Loci Committee.
Accomplishing to its main target (to safeguard and promote the biodiversities of the several Italian autochthonous species of vine together with other bodies) the Association participated to the foundation in Gorizia (a frontier city with a strong cultural exchange and vocation for wine) of the Vinum Loci Committee, which saw its official “baptism” in the prestigeful Press Club in Milan, on Thursday 27th February 2003. Beyond creating a file containing all the species of vine within different Italian territories, it wants to transform this silent genius reserves, warded within the labs or lost across Italian lands, into an important tool to let all the typical tastes and smells with the relative areas know.
Res Tipica InComune spa
InComune è una società partecipata da Città del Vino
InComune, company with a mixed participation (public/private), was established in 2001, thanks to the National Association Città del Vino with the Cittadelvino.com SpA denomination. Its main aim is to provide on-line services to the Municipalities with a strong vocation for wine. The development route is composed by some on-line projects and services, in order to provide the local administrations with important cooperation tools to enforce the local development policies. A particular relevance is given to the AssociationsThat’s how the following projects were born:
- Agea, the on-line tool to know, measure and monitor the wine productions within the territory;
- Enoteche Comunali (municipal wine bars) which allow every Città del Vino Member Municipality to foster the food and wine tourism, enriching their own portal with a special section, dedicated to the local wine and typical products, in order to let them know to everybody.
AutoctonO
AutoctonO is a company established in 2000 from the meeting of Christian Fabrizio and Antonio Cardetta (two professional men with different background experiences), who shared a common love for wine. It was born in response of the always growing interest of the national and international markets, toward Italian autochthonous wines with unique prerogatives. It is specialized in the selection, evaluation and trade of wine, derived exclusively from Italian Autochthon Vines. The activity of AutoctonO consists in organizing, in restaurants and wine-bars, some meeting moments with the people, in which it is possible to taste and comment some selected wines.
Together with AutoctonO, the Association realized V.I.P. (Vino in Piazza – Wine on the Square), which consists on realizing some tastings with autochthonous wines. This manifestation is a traveling exhibition across the Cities of Wine.
“Wine and Health” Association
Founded on January 2005 within the medical and scientific research world,these association aimed to analyze thoroughly the healthy aspects of wine. It was established thanks to the further Mayor of Montalcino Massimo Ferretti, who passed away before his time, and a group of doctors, who strongly believed in the urge to foster a moderate consumption of quality wine. The convention between the two Associations was signed in 2006 and it gives to “Wine and Health” a specific role: the Scientific Committee within the association Città del Vino. Both Associations commit themselves, together and separately, in promoting the culture of wine. It occurs from a scientific point of view, with studies ans researches on qualities and benefits of wine coming from a proper consumption and with a particular reference for young people or from an institutional point of view, with seminaries, meetings and conferences.
Censis Services spa
The Centre for Studies, Social Investments, Censis spa, is a social-economic research institute founded in 1964 and which became Foundation in 1973, thanks to the participation of public and private bodies. For more than 30 years it has been carrying out a strong activity: studies, advise, valuation and proposal in the most important sectors of the social reality, such as training, welfare, territorial network, environment, economy, local and city development. From the cooperation between Città del Vino and Censis Services s.p.a. was born the Observatory on the Wine Tourism as a special device aimed to the development of this kind of tourism and Wine Roads. It is an in-depth survey about the organizational set up, the strategies, the strong and weak points of Oenotourism in Italy. The research analyses the Municipalities and the territories crossed by “Roads” in terms of notoriety, wines and products valuation, restoration quality, accommodation and communication.
Stratos
With Stratos Spa, consulting and business training company, Città del Vino is creating the Ethical Routes project. In conformity with the principles of the Aalborg Chart about sustainable development (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987), the initiative has as a main target to give a new definition and qualification of the wine environment, with specific actions to improve the environment itself. To create an Ethical Route means taking care of an entire territory. Stratos has Certifications UNI EN ISO 9001 since 1996 and applicant SA 8000 and it is divided in three parts: health and Environment, Small and Middle Companies, Big Clients and Local Bodies.
VH Italia -Vereinigte Hagelversicherung VVaG
The Vereinigte Hagelversicherung VVaG, is a society of the group AGRORISK (see the link) and it is a union of insurance companies, specialized in agriculture in German. Founded in 1824, it has more than 175 years of experience regarding the dangers caused by hail. With it, Città del Vino signed an agreement, in order to provide to its Members Municipalities a first aid in case of natural calamity.
Deloitte
Città del Vino will develop some management projects on the traceability of the net with Deloitte, prestigious international services company to enterprises, with great skill and technical experience on traceability, labeling and integrated management of the Land Notebooks. The Deloitte support goes to the budget advise to the public administrations through the development of integrated systems of local tax management.