Nature does not recognise frontiers. The Alps stretch more than 1,200 kilometres across the heart of Europe, straddling the prime latitudinal band for fine wine production and sitting at the crossroads of France, Germany, Italy and Austria. Within this mountain landscape — shaped by glaciers, ancient rock and millennia of human cultivation — a family of wines has evolved that shares geology, climate, indigenous grape heritage and cultural connectivity across national and linguistic boundaries. These wines are all too simplistically pigeonholed as French, Swiss or Italian. The wider Alpine category is seldom acknowledged. No institution currently exists to present them as a single wine category. Alpina Vina exists to fill that void.
The Regions
Nine regions across the Alpine arc — from Savoie in the west to Alto Adige / Südtirol in the east — each defined by altitude, indigenous grape heritage and heroic viticulture on some of the steepest and most dramatic vineyard slopes in Europe.
The Grapes
The Alpine arc is one of Europe's most extraordinary reservoirs of indigenous grape varieties. Chasselas, Jacquère, Petite Arvine, Lagrein, Teroldego, Petit Rouge, Altesse, Completer and scores of others — many found in meaningful cultivation nowhere else on earth — are documented here in the most comprehensive cross-border Alpine grape glossary available, developed with the guidance of Dr José Vouillamoz, leading authority on Alpine grape genetics.
The Producers
The men and women who make Alpine wine are, by necessity, also stonemasons, engineers and custodians of a living heritage. This platform highlights producers who are guardians of varieties, landscapes and traditions that exist nowhere else — and whose wines represent some of the most compelling and under-discovered expressions of mountain terroir in the world.
Alpine wines - Documentary film
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