There are no wines for women or men, it is a useless and forced categorization. If anything, there are wines that come from hands and heads, from different souls of men and women. The concept of “female viticulture” would also be forced, as if a bottle were clearly recognizable because it carries a pink bow.
However, there is one aspect, and it often makes the difference: the role of women in wine has always had to suffer myopic sexism which, fortunately, today is slowly recovering diopters, although it remains so.
And this is what enriches wines produced by women: they contain a pride plus that does not appear on the label. There are many and different stories of producers who have struggled a lot before being able to prove their value and come to be considered “good” (not even valid) women of wine, and we are not talking about a century ago but about the present.
Take the Langhe as an example, perhaps the territory more tenacious as for winemaking tradition, a fortress (almost always in the masculine) difficult if not impossible to conquer. Among the hills that gave birth to some of the best known wines in circulation, Lara Rocchietti e Luisa Sala they decided to make wine, starting from scratch. Today in their thirties, they began five years ago, two blondes from Turin who arrived in the cradle of Barolo with a degree in Gastronomic Sciences, experiences lived overseas and a lot, a lot of will with massive doses of courage. “Love your dream even if it torments you”, wrote the poet D’Annunzio, and how many obstacles and doubts the two girls from the city who arrived in the countryside had. They had to redeciphering being in the world (the farmer one) because they realized that being good-looking, having had a good education, knowing how to make a business plan, correctly conjugate a subjunctive and always smiling, automatically labeled them as Martians who arrived there, who knows why. “Finding the land to buy and being able to integrate it was difficult, but as in all peasant realities, if you show authenticity and true will, you can do it”, they say.
The mess tin in Langa companies such as Conterno Fantino, Boglietti and Réva were very important to them but the guidance received from Federico Trediberri of the homonymous winery, without which the first steps would not have been in the right direction. The training continued by Domaine des Comtes Lafon, in Meursault in Burgundy, and by producer Cecile Tremblay in Morey Saint Denis; until at the beginning of 2019 theLalù Farm, with its 3.5 hectares between Monforte d’Alba and La Morra, whose dreams refine and take shape in a garage-cellar in Serra Lunga d’Alba. Barbera, Nebbiolo, and soon a Barolo are the result of an exciting, authentic and above all sweaty beginning.
Therefore, the concept of heroic viticulture, with an understanding that does not refer to extreme environmental conditions but to intellectual sacrifices e morals.
In the gallery you will find 12 red wines produced by women, liquid documents of inestimable value. And we asked each of them three questions:
What is your ideal of perfect wine?
What is your wine that best represents you and why?
Any advice for an aspiring wine producer?
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