Italy wins a rich haul at the Mondial des Vins orientales, the international competition dedicated to 'heroic wines' produced on inaccessible terrain, in extreme contexts, steeply sloping terrain, at high altitudes and in particular climatic conditions, on terraces or large steps and viticulture of small islands or in areas of great landscape value with native vines, where cultivation can cost more than 10 times compared to a vineyard in the plains.
Three Italian wines were awarded Grand Gold Medals during the ceremony in Val d'Aosta, the highest recognition. The Sweet wines category went to the Aleatico passito dell'Elba docg - 2015 from Acquabona agricultural management in Portoferraio (LI), and to the Valle d'Aosta doc Chambave muscat flétri - 2018 from the La Vrille farm - Verrayes in Val d 'Aosta.
Molise won the third Grand Gold Medal in the Still Red Wines category produced in the 2017 and previous harvests with Tintilia del Molise doc Herero – 2016 by Herero srl – Campobasso.
Italy was also awarded 118 gold medals out of 785 wines in the competition.
In particular 26 to Valle d'Aosta, 4 medals to Tuscany, 15 to Lombardy; 11 to Liguria; 10 to Alto Adige, Trentino and Sicily; 9 to Campania and Veneto; 5 to Piedmont and Sardinia; 3 in Lazio and one in Abruzzo.
“The results – declared Stefano Celi, president of Cervim, which organizes the competition – confirmed the high quality of the heroic productions in Italy and the rest of the world, an increasingly marked average excellence emerged and great diversity of vines translate into wines with unique flavors in the glass”.
This is the second most attended edition ever despite a year strongly characterized by the health emergency from Covid-19.
Among the foreign nations that took part in the competition, it is worth noting in particular the excellent success of Spain which won six Grand gold medals and 46 gold medals. Followed by Portugal who secured three Grand Gold Medals and six Gold Medals, France (2 and 11), Germany (2 and 10), Switzerland (one and 13), Cyprus (one and four ), Georgia (one and two), Argentina (one Grand Gold Medal). Other gold medals went to Macedonia (three), Slovenia (two), Greece, Andorra, Slovakia, USA and China (one).
Italy also distinguished itself in the special prizes with: Special Prize – Cervim2020 went to the Cantina Produttori Bolzano; the Excellence Award – Cervim2020
Assigned to Vallée d'Aoste doc chambave muscat flétri – 2018 from the farm la vrille – verrayes/ao; the Cervim futuro Prize 2020 awarded to Edoardo Braga of the Edoardo Braga farm in Quart (Valle d'Aosta), the Cervim small islands Prize 2020 awarded to Aleatico passito dell'Elba docg - 2015 by Acquabona agricultural management - Portoferraio (LI). Finally, the Cervim2020 Women's Award went to Claudia Zanotti of the La Sbercia farm in Borgoratto Mormorolo (PV)
The complete list of awarded wines:
http://www.mondialvinsextremes.com/asset/lista-vini-premiati_2020-doc.pdf
