The impacts of climate change are being felt here and now. From floods in Germany to wildfires in Greece and Turkey; water shortages in Northern Europe and even heatwaves in Siberia. Intensifying weather events threaten our way of life, with severe impacts on people’s health, livelihoods and assets.
To help accelerate the Europe’s climate adaptation strategy and meet ambitions to become the world’s first climate-neutral continent by 2050, the European Commission has awarded a new flagship project named IMPETUS. Its objective: turn climate commitments into tangible, urgent actions to protect communities and the planet. The IMPETUS project will help accelerate Europe’s response to climate change and develop innovative measures to make its regions more resilient.
Motivated and multidisciplinary teams in research, policy, industry and civil society will address real-world challenges in seven test regions across Europe. Together these represent all the continent’s bio-climatic regions: Arctic, Atlantic, Boreal, Coastal, Continental, Mediterranean and Mountainous.
These teams will analyse and scale the most effective solutions to protect water, agriculture, fisheries, infrastructure and health. Working with local policy-makers, businesses and communities will help to make them a success.
Within the seven regional test beds – one in each bioclimatic region of Europe – the Valle dei Laghi and Cantina Toblino were identified to represent the mountainous area and seek innovative solutions to be used in the future to tackle climate change.
“93% of Europeans consider climate change a serious problem. To respond effectively, we need to adapt our policy actions and strategies to new climatic situations. We need to better understand when and how to act in a transition to green economy.” says Aitor Corchero, Eurecat senior researcher and project technical coordinator. “IMPETUS is important because it demonstrates the concrete actions we all urgently need to take to protect the environment and the economy. It will work on solutions for a range of climate conditions ““ from the artic to the Mediterranean basin ““ empower communities and protect key systems like water, agriculture and infrastructure.”
Cantina Toblino will play a key role in the Impetus project, in particularly with regard to the development of an applicable and scalable Innovation Package in different mountain areas in a national and international context. This objective will be achievable thanks to the contribution of various stakeholders and through the creation of an European network of institutions and private bodies able to contribute to the realization of the project as well as the promotion of the same in various communities of reference. The main ambitious is to be able to increase material and immaterial know-how as well as to augment the sense of responsibility regarding the main critical points and vulnerabilities related to climate change.
The impact we would like to see at the end of this path is the dissemination and adoption of some of the best practices identified over the next 4 years in an European context aimed at encouraging climate and social resilience. Cantina Toblino will be the reference point and the spokesperson of a series of initiatives able to lead to the environmental and socio-economic protection of mountain areas.
Now in its 18th edition, the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) is the largest and the most influential wine competition in the world with an unrivaled global reach. Judged by the best wine experts in the world, DWWA is internationally appreciated for its rigorous evaluation process.
Over 15 consecutive days in June, almost 170 expert wine judges, including 44 Masters of Wine and 11 Master Sommeliers, awarded 50 Best in Show, 179 Platinum, 635 Gold, 5,607 Silver and 8,332 Bronze medals.
Considering that only 179 wines out of 18.094 tasted wines have reached the Platinum Medal, of which 36 Italian wines and only 3 of Trentino Alto Adige.
Nosiola of Cantina Toblino, after receiving 97 points in the competition last year with Vino Santo Trentino, confirms itself, winning the Platinum Medal with Largiller 2013. It is described by Decanter as “˜Beautifully perfumed, with a nose layered with dried citrus, vanilla sugar, confectioners custard and russet apple aromas, while the saline palate is textured with lemon, lime and a lovely succulent acidity’.
Nosiola, the only native white grape variety of Trentino, is the iconic grape variety of Cantina Toblino, hearth of viticulture in Valle dei Laghi. The cooperative winery was founded in 1960 at the behest of a group of passionate winemakers who glimpsed the great winemaking vocation of the Valle dei Laghi. From that moment, the link between social cooperation, people and territory remains essential. To date, there are over 600 members-winemakers with almost 900 hectares of vineyards, of which over a third are converted to organic.
The attention they pay daily to the care of the vineyard is high, a continuous manual work that requires passion, patience, great dedication and continuous training.
In 2016 was born the project Vènt, of which Largiller is part, to best express the identity of Valle dei Laghi and the savoir-faire of Cantina Toblino, an inseparable union between territory and environment: organic intended as an expression of quality and territorial protection.
The name Largiller comes from its clay component present in the soil where the grapes grow, which gives, together with Ora del Garda, unsurpassed peculiarities to the bunches. These characteristics allow having a late ripening, that is harvested in the first half of October.
This Nosiola is the pure expression of the identity of Valle dei Laghi, bringing with it history, tradition, vocazione and enhancing the uniqueness of the territory: an elegant and complex wine with many shades that alternate with smell and taste.
In addition to the Platinum Medal obtained by Largiller 2013, the other wines presented by Cantina Toblino received:
1 Gold Medal (95 ““ 95 pts): L’Ora 2016
6 Silver Medal (90 ““ 94 pts) Vent 2017, Foll 2019, Prà al 2019, da Fòra 2019, Baticòr 2018, eLimarò 2016
This, to reward the great commitment that, over time, is leading to achieve every year new prestigious achievement.
From 5 to 11 October, “La Vendemmia di Via Montenapoleone“ starts again in Milan. The event, now in its eleventh edition, is conceived and promoted by Montenapoleone District and realized in collaboration with the Comitato Grandi Cru d’Italia and, also this year it is during the ‘Milano Wine Week‘ staged from 3 to 11 October.
The wines, national and international, become protagonists in the boutique Global Luxury Brands of the Fashion District that welcome guests for wine-tastings on request.
These are the words of Guglielmo Miani, president of the Montenapoleone District: ‘With the harvest we renow one again our desire to celebrate the union between the world of fashion and wine, two pillars of Made in Italy. Love for beauty and research, between tradition and innovation, that we breathe in the Milan streets and boutiques, are enhanced in the week of ‘La Vendemmia’, one of the events that contributes to increase the prestige of Milan also internationally’.
The partecipation to ‘La Vendemmia’ is, for the first time, also digital: on the Instragram TV, thanks to the speech of fashion and wine entrepreneurs, some mouthpieces of the most famous Maison and ambassadors of the Italian lifestyle in the world.
Among the activities planned, the 7th October, a Masterclass organized by Gambero Rosso at the Four Seasons Hotel, in which partecipated also Cantina Toblino with L’Ora, awarded with the 3 Bicchieri.
A white wine that defies time, L’Ora of Toblino, from Nosiola grapes, a lustrum (2015) that gives further complexity to the white obtained with one of the great autochthonous varieties.”
Lorenzo Ruggeri, food and wine journalist for Gambero Rosso, described Cantina Toblino as ‘a reality in which 600 partners work together according to a strict protocol that allows them to create great wines, environmental sustainability, continuity and many projects on different land. Its Nosiola, the unique great Trentino native grape, is a very particular but versatile variety, which allows the production of great dry and sweet wines. It has a character that comes out of the chor, with hints and rhythms that taste of other time.’
The Nosiola, aged for 5 years, was a surprise both for the critics and the guests present at the event.
The guide “˜Vini d’Italia’ of Gambero Rosso is one of the most authoritative Italian publications, which annually assigns the prestigious 3 Bicchieri, the highest recognition expected for a wine: an award for a few, prestigious labels.
A consolidated experience of over 30 years of history has allowed this guide to acquire authority towards consumers, presenting itself every year as an important voice of food and wine criticism, capable of directing the market by pointing out the excellences, whether they are produced by small winemakers as from large cellars.
Also this year, the Nosiola di Toblino is reconfirmed, receiving the 3 Bicchieri with L’Ora 2015 of Cantina Toblino: a white wine that defies time, a luster (2015) on the shoulders to give further complexity to the white obtained with one of the great native varieties, made an even more noble vine, with an identity in the Dolomite approach, which tries its hand at slowness and relaunches goduriose simplicity.
The Nosiola grapes, vinified with greater care and attention, give rise to a decidedly satisfying and equally versatile white wine. Able to satisfy a jovial consumption as the patient – deserved – expected. Because his genuine youthful strength becomes singularly complex with the passage of time. Golden, with apparently imperceptible reflections, it relaunches a first-rate floral olfactory set, so much so that it competes with wines from much more noble and international vines.
Nosiola, unmistakably linked to Vino Santo, the undisputed star of the Gambero Rosso 2020 guide, which described it as the Best Sweet Wine of Italy, winning it 3 Bicchieri.
‘«This century of ours, born and raised under the sign of industrial civilization, first invented the machine and then made it its own model of life.
Speed “‹”‹has become our chain, we are all in the throes of a fast life, which upsets our habits. But man sapiens must recover his wisdom and free himself from the speed that can reduce him to an endangered species.
Against those who confuse efficiency with frenzy, we offer an adequate portion of pleasures to be practiced in slow and prolonged enjoyment.
Let’s start right at the table with Slow Food, rediscovering the richness and aromas of local cuisine.
If fast life, in the name of productivity, has changed our lives and threatens the environment and the landscape, Slow Food is today the avant-garde response.
Here, in the development of taste, true culture can begin, then progress can begin, with the international exchange of stories, knowledge, projects. Slow Food ensures a better future.
Slow Food is an idea that needs many qualified supporters to make this (slow) movement an international movement, of which the snail is the symbol.’»
Good, clean and fair. This is the philosophy of the cellars towards which Slow Wine,’ life stories, vineyards and wines in Italy pushes the visitor. A wine guide produced by Slow Food that reviews wines and cellars, thanks to the help of a number of collaborators that are now close to 300 people. A mapping of the territory that has no equal and that allows you to always report new companies and oenological realities to insiders and simple enthusiasts.
The guide assigns its awards to the most deserving companies both for the quality of the wine and for the quality of the agriculture used to produce it.
The goal is to tell the history of the cellars, to describe the vineyards and the cultivation systems adopted to conclude with the judgment of the wines. For this reason Slow Wine is the most complete Italian guide, suitable for everyone: both for readers who are just at the beginning of their journey of discovering wine, and for more experienced wine lovers, who are looking for advice on how to buy a bottle rather than another.
Cantina Toblino was awarded with the Moneta, symbol assigned to wineries that have expressed a good relationship between quality and price. To Da Fòra Manzoni Bianco Trentino Doc Bio was awarded the title of’ Top Wine, wine that from an organoleptic point of view has achieved excellence during tastings.
The novelty of the 2021 guide is represented by the new cover, which differs considerably from the previous ones in terms of graphics and materials used. This is in fact printed on CRUSH Uva 350.
CRUSH is the new ecological range of paper made with by-products of agro-industrial processes that replace up to 15% of cellulose from trees.
Grape residues are reused as a noble raw material. The materials are visible on the paper surface and give an unusual tactile appearance.
This is good news for the environment at a time when traditional paper production heavily affects forest resources and the growing scarcity of nature reserves.
The eco-friendly paper CRUSH, it contains, within its formulation, components with low environmental impact, both in terms of product and energy. By using agro-industrial waste and 100% green energy, the carbon footprint is reduced by 20%.
These values “‹”‹are the same that Cantina Toblino has been trying to promote for years, such as the enhancement of the territory and sustainability both at an environmental and social level.
Now in its 17th year, the Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA) is the world’s largest and most influential wine competition. Judged by the top wine experts from around the globe, the DWWA is trusted internationally for its rigorous judging process.
DWWA has 118 judges from around the world, including 37 Masters of Wine and 9 Master Sommeliers, and many of them are the foremost experts in their field. In this edition, they tasted and discussed the merits of 16.518 wines of 56 countries.
Judging is organised into categories, initially based on region. The judges taste wines individually. They know the region, style and price bracket, but they don’t know who produced the wine or the brand name. They then compare notes on the wine and reach a consensus on each wine’s medal.
Medal categories correspond to the 100-point scoring system used by’ Decanter and many top wine critics around the world.
Great success for Cantina Toblino, that has seen rewarded 8 of its wines with different medals, but Vino Santo 2004 was awarded with the most prestigious and coveted one: the Platinum Medals (97 pts).
With this result, Vino Santo 2004 is rated among the best 150 Italian wines.
A great result that enhances Valle dei Laghi, its history and traditions, Nosiola, our work and that of our partners: source of pride for all.
In addition to this award, Cantina Toblino has seen rewarded other 7 wines:
These awards confirm the ongoing commitment in the quality research and in the valorization of the territory of Valle dei Laghi.
Inspired by the Italian wine tradition and aimed at enhancing local roots, territory and typicity, Vinibuoni d’Italia of Touring Club Italiano gives a clear signal to consumers and to the Italian and foreign market, on the made in Italy of wine.
The guide is unique, in the Italian and international scene, because it is the only one dedicated to the wine from native vine, the ones 100% produced by vine varieties that have been in the Peninsula for over 300 years. These wines are an established reality in the Italian wine scene. Even the large audience of enthusiasts has learned to recognize and appreciate wines coming from historical vines that have their roots in the past and in the most authentic traditions of a place.
Born 16 years ago, when the team of autochthonous wines was at the forefront, Vinibuoni d’Italia is the result of a quality work by a team of experts (coordinated by’ Mario Busso and Alessandro Scorsone) that every year meets up in a regional tasting commitee and selects the best wines.
Divided into 21 regional chapters (Trentino and South Tyrol are divided into two chapters), the guide leads fans to discover the thousand wines, the thousand wineries and the thousand worlds of autochthonous tradition: small family-run enterprises, social cooperatives and modern wineries, wines of great structure and ‘everyday’ wines.
The wines that obtain more votes receive the Corona, the highest award that the guide attributes to the best selected native wines; whereas the others achieve the’ Golden Star.
The 2021 guide assigns two Corone to the wines of Cantina Toblino:
VINO SANTO Trentino Doc 2004
LAS Lagrein Trentino Doc Bio 2016
These wines are pleasure and complex and have a defined character: wines of strong emotions, able to enhance the senses of every passionate winelover.
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James Suckling is one of today’s leading wine critics whose reviews are read and respected by wine lovers, serious wine collectors, and the wine trade worldwide. Suckling spent nearly 30 years as Senior Editor and European Bureau Chief of’ Wine Spectator. On his departure from the magazines, Forbes called the Los Angeles-born writer “one of the world’s most powerful wine critics.”
In late 2010, Suckling launched his website that evolved from him seeing a need for wine to be communicated in a more modern way. The crux of the site are his tasting notes, and James and his team of critics rate everything with the 100-point scale. The site also offers subscribers video content from wineries around the world.
James Suckling assigned some important scores to the wines of Cantina Toblino:
““ Da Fòra Manzoni Bianco Trentino Doc 2018 Bio ““ 92 points
““ Praal Pinot Bianco Trentino Doc 2018 Bio ““ 91 points
““ Foll Chardonnay Trentino Doc 2018 Bio ““ 91 points
““ Las Lagrein Trentino Doc 2016 Bio ““ 90 points
Reasearch in the archive shows that no white wine from Trentino has ever received 92 points from James Suckling. This is a source of great pride and satisfaction for all of us, for our members and for the whole Valle dei Laghi.
The WineHunter Award is the award of the Merano Wine Festival, established by Helmuth Koecher, of excellence and high quality awarded annually to wine and culinary products, spirits and beers.
The prize is awarded to national and international products which, following a careful evaluation, reach a minimum score of 90 points out of 100, and guarantees the final consumer the superior quality of the product.
About 7,000 wines tasted of which 3,100 awarded by The WineHunter. The Red Award (90 – 92.99 points) 2,300 wines and the Gold Award (93 – 95.99 points) 800 wines. Of the latter, the best make up the TOP 100 from which the winners of the most coveted award, the Platinum Award (96 – 100 points) will emerge.
In addition to the wines, the guide also presents 380 excellences in the gastronomic field divided into the Food – Spirits – Beer categories and selected from over 500 products tasted, in addition to those awarded in 2019 whose recognition is valid for two years. 240 products that get the Red Award and 140 the Gold, while the TOP 50 nominates the best gastronomic products to the Platinum Award that is assigned in October.
The guide also proposes the publication of the TOP 5 of each region, a selection of wines chosen from those that best represent the different Italian regional territories according to Helmuth Köcher.
The Wine Hunter Award 2020 recognized to Cantina Toblino wines the following awards:
GOLD Prà al Pinot bianco Trentino Doc 2018 Bio
ROSSO da Fòra Manzoni bianco Trentino Doc 2018 Bio
ROSSO Foll Chardonnay Trentino Doc 2018 Bio
ROSSO Vino Santo Trentino Doc 2004
ROSSO Antares Trento Doc 2016 Brut Millesimato
Merano Wine Festival, back to the roots: The WineHunter Helmuth Köcher faces COVID-19 with courage and organization and confirms the dates of the 29th edition scheduled from 6 to 10 November 2020 without upsetting the traditional format, returning to its origins in that distant 1992 where the history of the most glamorous food & wine event was written in the world.
Gambero Rosso World Tour – London 2020. Thanks to the prestigious recognition obtained by Cantina Toblino Vino Santo Trentino DOC 2003 (3 Bicchieri e nominee as Miglior Vino Dolce d’Italia 2020 for Gambero Rosso) our wines were among the protagonists of the event “GAMBERO ROSSO TRE BICCHIERI WORLD TOUR – LONDON 2020”. The event was held at the Hackney Town Hall, an art-deco style building often used for large events and ceremonies. The program, in addition to the tasting tables of 40 producers who received the 3 glasses from Gambero Rosso, included a master class dedicated to Tuscan Frescobaldi wines and one to extra virgin olive oil.
A unique setting, expert and demanding public, accustomed to tasting great wines. Precisely for this reason Cantina Toblino, alongside the Vino Santo, has also proposed other selections from native vines. Largiller – Nosiola Vigneti delle Dolomiti IGT 2012 ed eLimarò – Rosso Vigneti delle Dolomiti IGT 2015. These wines, born from the expert hands of our winemaker Lorenzo Tomazzoli, have cheered the most demanding palates thanks to their complexity, elegance and freshness.
Importers, journalists, sommeliers, curators. All impressed by our wines, by the potential and adaptability of Nosiola and Rebo.