After the medals awarded at the end of the 29th edition of the Mondial des Vins Extrêmes, the international competition dedicated to wines, Cervim has announced the winners of the special prizes in which Italy has conquered excellent positions.
The Cervim Futuro 2021 Award, reserved for the company led by a winemaker of up to 35 years of age, was awarded to Emanuele Contino, of the Teresa Soria farm in Castiglione Tinella (Piedmont).
Contino leads a company of twelve hectares of vineyards, where Moscato and sustainability are the protagonists. Vineyards facing south, which require a lot of manual work, where slopes of more than 40% are reached. They are the “sori del Moscato”. “We believe in this heroic viticulture – he says – and in the distinction of the different crus. From these vineyards we produce Moscato d'Asti Vigna Moncucco, Moscato d'Asti late harvest Vigna Marini and Escamotage Insolito, a dry XNUMX% Moscato, which comes from a process that began many years ago and merged into the Aroma di a Territory of which we are among the founders.
If it is true that the quality of a wine is made up of the excellence of the grapes harvested and therefore of the vineyard that produced it, it is also true that vineyards on steep slopes where mechanization is limited or in some cases even impracticable, declare a quality viticulture that has a strong historical value. “Even when Moscato, the “good” one, was Spumante, to produce it - Emanuele Contino tells us - only the grapes from the vineyards perched on the steepest and best exposed slopes of our hills were used. Vineyards that offer their best in the most difficult years, grapes that reach a good quality level even in less favorable years from a climatic point of view, rows that require little phytosanitary intervention, given that heat and drought are daily conditions and certainly unfavorable to fungal diseases. We are talking about a viticulture of other times, that of our grandparents, which in these areas is at risk of extinction for the benefit of replanting on less inaccessible territories where costs are lower, mechanization is almost total and where greater productions per hectare. A viticulture that respects these hills, but also its history".
The Cervim 2021 Woman Award went to Eleonora Question, from the Question farm - Calosso/AT (Piedmont); while the Cervim Bio 2021 prize was awarded to the Trento doc Altinum reserve - 2016 cellar of Aldeno (Trento). Again, Italy won the Cervim Small Islands Award 2021 with Pantelleria doc Shamira - 2015 from the Basile farm - Pantelleria (Sicily
As for the other special prizes awarded by the Mondial des Vins Extrêmes, it should be reported that the Cervim 2021 Grand Prix for the wine that obtained the best score ever went to Portugal for H&H Fine Rich Single Harvest – 1997 Henriques & Henriques – Vinhos, sa – Câmara de lobos (Island of Madeira).
Good placement for Italy also with the Cervim 2021 Special Prize, awarded to the company of each country, with at least 5 participating wineries, and which obtains the best result, given by the sum of the highest scores of three wines of different categories. Seven countries top the ranking: France with Cave de l'abbé Rous – Banyuls sur mer Eastern Pyrenees); Germany with WeingutRreis – Feine Weine! – Briedel (Mosel); Greece with Alpha estate sa – Amyndeon (Florina); Italy with Tenute Lombardo – Caltanissetta (Sicily); Portugal with Adega cooperative de Murça, crl – Murça, (Douro); Spain with Sat viticultores Comarca de guimar – Arafo (Tenerife – Canary Islands) and Switzerland with St. Jodern Kellerei – Visperteminen (Canton Valais).
On the other hand, the Cervim Original Prize 2021 goes to Cyprus and precisely to the Pdo Limassol Commandaria - 2013 Oenou yi - Ktima Vassiliades of Omodos (Limassol).
The Vinofed 2021 Award – awarded to the dry wine with the best score – goes to North Macedonia, with the Barovo red – 2018 Tikves winery of Kavadarci. Finally, the Mondial Vins Extremes 2021 Award, which goes to the wine-growing area that participated with the greatest number of wines, was awarded to the Aosta Valley and the Canary Islands (Spain).
For the Extreme Spirits 2021 section - in its first edition - reserved for distillates, the Gran Premo Extreme Spirits 2021 (to the distillate with the best score overall) went to Acquavite Divino - 2004 - Agricola Pojer and Sandri di Faedo (TN); and the Extreme Spirits 2021 Excellence Award was assigned to Grappa mosaic - 1918 - agricultural Pojer and Sandri di Faedo (TN) for Grappa and distillates of young pomace; for Grappas and young aromatic pomace spirits to Grappa dell'acquabona - 2019 - Acquabona agricultural management - of Portoferraio (LI) and for Grappas and aged marc spirits (with permanence in wood for at least 12 months) to Grappa di passito - 2020 - distillery Pezzi snc of Campodenno (TN)
