Founded with the name of Consortium for the Protection of Soave and Recioto di Soave Wines. The Consortium brings together both production workers and professional categories involved in winemaking and wine marketing.
With approximately 500,000 hectoliters of wine, Soave is the most significant slice of the productions with a designation of origin in the province of Verona (about 40%) in which 10% of the Italian DOC and 50% of those from the Veneto region are concentrated.
The Consortium has no speculative goals and aims, in particular:
to protect viticulture in the production area of Soave and Recioto di Soave wines and to defend their production;
to promote knowledge and the dissemination of Soave and Recioto di Soave wines and to defend their production;
to promote knowledge and the dissemination of Soave and Recioto di Soave wines playing anywhere a special promotion;
to pay attention in order to avoid the marketing of wines produced with other grapes or defective wines or that do not have the characteristics of a protected origin wine;
to implement an effective supervision, in collaboration with the State bodies, to prevent abuse and fraud with the irregular use of Soave and Recioto di Soave designations;
to defend in every seat, even legal, the legitimate collective interests;
to assist the consortium members in the improvement of the culture of protected wines, monitoring the field to make that the the product specifications are correctly applied;
to promote the recognition of the designation of controlled and guaranteed origin of Soave Superiore and Recioto di Soave wine.
