Alta Langa, a virtuous path

The year 2022 closed with growth for the Alta Langa appellation, and 2023 looks even better.

• 55 sparkling wine houses associated with the Consortium
• 115 different labels produced by producers associated with the Consortium
• 377 hectares of vineyards (175 in the province of Cuneo, 164 in the province of Asti, 38 in the province of Alessandria)
• The Alta Langa vineyard is planted 2/3 Pinot noir and 1/3 Chardonnay
• 3,000,000 bottles in production from the 2022 vintage
• Domestic market: 90%
• Export: 10%.

The Alta Langa Consortium was established in 2001, after many years of in-depth and methodical research and studies on the vocation of the area. It has always been very active: winemakers and producers are involved in the development of a wine, an appellation and a territory. All linked by a great bet: that of a wine that will not be ready until six years after planting and that for this must necessarily be important. To date, the consortium has 55 sparkling wine houses and 90 associated winemakers.

Alta Langa Docg is the historic brut sparkling wine of Piedmont. The appellation now has a production of 3 million bottles from the 2022 vintage and a very long history behind it: it was the first classic method to be produced in Italy, as far back as the mid-19th century. Alta Langa was awarded DOC in 2002 and DOCG in 2011 (retroactive to the 2008 vintage). It is made from Pinot noir and Chardonnay grapes, either alone or together in varying percentages; it can be white or rosé, brut or pas dosé, and has very long aging times on the lees, as the strict regulations require: at least 30 months. As further evidence of the perennial quest for the best quality, Alta Langa is exclusively vintage, that is, it is the result of a single harvest and always bears the year the grapes were picked on the label. It is produced in a hilly territory (from 250 meters above sea level) that embraces 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 heritage preserved by the ancestors, kept intact for a long time without undergoing radical transformations as happened instead in the low hills. That of the Alta Langa is a precious land, to be sustained, in which biodiversity is safeguarded. It is a literary land, an extraordinary land of resistance--of wars and of cultures--that has coped with change and gone along with it without losing its baggage of memory and its strong identity.