AN INTENSE AND PROFITABLE 2024 CLOSES FOR THE ALTA LANGA CONSORTIUM

SAVE THE DATE : March 10, 2025 The First of the Alta Langa in Turin.

2024 was a year of growth for the Alta Langa Consortium, which strengthened its role in the Italian sparkling wine scene. A rich agenda of events and collaborations consolidated the positioning of the Alta Langa as a symbol of quality, innovation and tradition.

The most important moments of 2024

• January : The Consortium opened the year with a tasting bench at Grandi Langhe in Turin, an ideal opportunity to consolidate relationships with professionals and operators in the sector.
• February : The volume “Alta Langa: the story of a denomination” was presented to members, an in-depth study dedicated to the history and characteristics of the classic method Alta Langa DOCG.
• March : The sixth edition of La Prima dell'Alta Langa, at the Teatro Regio in Turin, saw an extraordinary participation of Horeca operators and the press. During the event, the oenologist Donato Lanati led two masterclasses on long refinements.
• April : During the Milan Design Week, Alta Langa was the protagonist alongside Italdesign for the launch of the “Asso di Picche” prototype, an example of how Piedmontese savoir faire can combine design and taste.
• Spring : The Consortium toasted at important events such as Vinum Alba and the twentieth anniversary of the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo.
• June : Alta Langa Roma, the great tasting event at Palazzo Brancaccio, was the highlight of the month, bringing the denomination to Rome with 30 producers. Among the June events, also Rose and Rosé in Bossolasco, which celebrated the territory through a refined meeting between nature and tradition. At the end of the month, the Consortium received the Ancalau “Lavoro & Ambiente” Award in Bosia, recognition for its commitment to the progress of the territory. Technical training meetings in the oenological and viticultural fields for the Consortium members have begun.
• September : Alta Langa DOCG participated in Abruzzo in Bolla and Terra Madre, where a dedicated corner allowed people to discover the high-quality Piedmontese bubbles. The two annual stages of “Alta Langa DOCG: Soul of a Territory”, the format created by the Consortium for the Horeca world, took place in Bologna and Florence. Furthermore, the Consortium toasted the New Year of the Alba White Truffle on the night of September 30, for the start of the hunting season in Piedmont.
• October, November and December : Alta Langa DOCG accompanied prestigious events such as the inauguration of the Opera and Ballet Season of the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Alba International White Truffle Fair and Buonissima Torino. Among the novelties of the year, the launch of the distinctive “Alta Langa Frappeuse”, created in exclusive collaboration with Italdesign.

A positive balance and a look to the future

2024 closes with significant results: 455 hectares of vineyards, 14 new associated producers that bring the group to 85 and an expected growth in sales of over 10%. A year that combined innovation and valorization of traditions, confirming the role of Alta Langa DOCG as a symbol of sparkling wine excellence at a national level.

The First of Alta Langa 2025

The date chosen for the annual event of the Alta Langa Consortium is Monday, March 10, 2025, in Turin . It will be the seventh edition of the great tasting of all the cuvées on the market of the Consortium members. In January, registrations for the Horeca public and for journalists will open on the institutional website.

“ The goals achieved this year – underlines the president Mariacristina Castelletta – are the result of a shared commitment: producers, partners and an ever-increasing number of supporters and enthusiasts who accompany us in taking the Alta Langa DOCG further and further, without ever losing sight of our values and our identity ”.

THE ALTA LANGA CONSORTIUM

The Alta Langa Consortium was founded in 2001, after many years of in-depth, methodical and documented research and studies on the area's vocation. It brings together passionate and far-sighted winemakers and producers who, driven by great Piedmontese pride, founded and grew this young denomination but with deep roots that sink into history and the territory. The great challenge that unites everyone is to produce a necessarily important wine, which will not be ready for six years after the vineyards are planted.

To date, the Consortium has more than 80 sparkling wine producers and 90 associated winemakers.

Since 2022, the president of the Consortium is Mariacristina Castelletta , the vice-president is Giovanni Carlo Bussi .

The Consortium boasts a long-standing partnership with the International Alba White Truffle Fair , of which it is the Main Sponsor and the Alta Langa DOCG Official Sparkling Wine , and with the Slow Food world, in particular with the Wine Bank and the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo ;   The Consortium is also a technical partner of the Teatro Regio in Turin .

ALTA LANGA DOCG

Alta Langa DOCG has the honour of representing the first classic method in Italy, born in Piedmont in the mid-1800s .

The denomination obtained the DOC in 2002 and the maximum qualitative recognition of the DOCG in 2011, today it has a production of over three million bottles.

Alta Langa Docg is made with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes, pure or mixed in variable percentages; it can be white or rosé, brut or pas dosé and has very long aging times on the yeasts, as required by the strict regulations: at least 30 months. The distinctive feature of Alta Langa is that it is an exclusively vintage sparkling wine, that is, the fruit of a single harvest: each bottle always has the year of the grape harvest on the label, inextricably linked to the particular characteristics of that specific harvest. It is produced in a hilly area (over 250 meters above sea level) that encompasses the provinces of Asti, Cuneo and Alessandria: a land that looks at the snow-capped peaks of the Alps and breathes the sea and that collects the legacy preserved by our ancestors, kept intact for a long time without undergoing radical transformations, as instead happened in the lower hills. The Alta Langa is a precious territory, to be supported, where biodiversity is safeguarded. A literary land, an extraordinary land of resistance - of wars and cultures -, which has faced changes and supported them without losing its baggage of memories and its strong identity.

Alta Langa obtained the DOC in 2002 and the DOCG in 2011.