“My wine is made in the vineyards.”
Cascina Vèngore is the dream of a young vigneron, Lucrezia Povero, to produce wine in harmony with nature and to experiment, day after day, the infinite expressions of the land in which she was born and where she chose to live. A natural amphitheatre in the heart of Terre Alfieri DOCG, a realm of biodiversity with 100% organic cultivation, Cascina Vèngore embraces 26 hectares in one single plot around a traditional Piedmontese farmhouse.
Years of negligence had transformed the vineyards of Vèngore into unproductive and sterile moorlands, which risked compromising the lively local ecosystem. But Lucrezia returned from studying abroad and decided to pursue the 5 generations of winemakers in her family who dedicated almost two hundred years to this land.
“I learned from the history of my family to evaluate the impact of our actions on the environment. I studied in California and experienced first-hand the danger of climate change. Vèngore is my commitment to a different type of agriculture, capable of overcoming the concept of "environmental protection" to embrace that of "vital regeneration. Taking care of a place to heal it: this is the goal of regenerative agriculture.”
Cascina Vèngore, in its current shape, was born in 2012 from the desire of the Povero family to recover some long since abandoned land. At Vèngore, organic farming meets the good practices of regenerative agriculture. Agricultural interventions aim not only to safeguard the existing ecosystem but also to enrich it with organic matter, or the entire ecosystem to be more vital, fertile, and biodiverse in the future.
Cascina Vèngore cultivates the three greatest native grape varieties of Piedmont, which on the hills of Terre Alfieri, reach the pinnacle of their expressiveness. Arneis, Nebbiolo and Barbera are vinified traditionally with minimaly invasive interventions.
