The Rocca dei Leoni tenutas lie in the heart of Benevento’s Sannio area, between the Valle Caudina, the Valle Telesina, and the valley of the Tammaro river. This steep land develops wines from it’s unique combination of rich soil (tuff, salty and minerality), local mountainous micro-climates and high elevation warmed by the powerful sun of the southern Italy latitudes. This includes emissions of greenhouse gases through the use of cutting-edge technologies that will invest the company’s production in its totality, from energy to transport, from fertilizers to fuels, as part of an overall strategy to get to zero emissions TENUTE DI ALTAVILLA-IRPINIAįiano, Greco di Tufo, Falanghina and Aglianico are indigenous grape varieties of the Irpinia wine area. The goal is to get to zero progressively, by 2011. The wine sector is one of the sectors with the highest energy consumption: hence the desire to develop sustainable production in harmony with nature and respectful for the environment. In 2009, the International Year of Planet Earth, Villa Matilde launched “Zero Emissions”, an integrated project for the protection of the environment. In the nineties, the company extended to the provinces of Avellino and Benevento, where the estates of Altavilla and Rocca dei Leoni were born. Here, you will find the crus and wines that have made the history of Villa Matilde. On these soft and sunny hills are the Tenute di San Castrese and the Parco Nuvo, with rows of the oldest vineyards of Aglianico, Falanghina and Piedirossa. Villa Matilde concentrates on breed it does not produce endless lines of wines, but elite wines appreciated by those who understand fine wines, inspired by culture or by personal passion.On one side, the sea and on the other, the extinct volcano of Roccamonfina: the heart of Villa Matilde and the Alto Casertano, an ancient and generous land, vegetable garden and vineyard of the Roman Empire.
In 2000, in fact, Villa Matilde inaugurated Tenuta Rocca dei Leoni in the heart of the Sannio zone, near Benevento, and in 2004 Tenuta d’Altavilla in the Irpinia DOCGs, in the province of Avellino, thus giving birth to new wines as well. Nor is innovation limited to just technology: it is the fruit of a creative imagination that centres its attention on the local growing area and its winegrowers.Īn ever-growing portfolio of wines is eloquent evidence of new vineyards and new wines, which testify to the self-confident identity of Campania Felix, ranging from the area of the Ager Falernus, in the province of Caserta, to the provinces of Benevento and Avellino. Going back to the past is in any case constantly enriched by revisiting and modernising that viticulture through use of state-of-the-art tools. Villa Matilde wines are the fruit of uninterrupted study and research aimed at identifying the grape varieties that yielded the ancient wines of this area, the aglianico and piedirosso vines that today produce red Falerno and the falanghina variety from which white Falerno is made. All of the winery buildings have been painted with a special white paint to compensate for global warming and the consequent greenhouse effect, and new trees have been planted to increase oxygen emission. Highly-insulating construction materials are being used, and preference given to natural ventilation systems to reduce electrical consumption. Particular attention is being paid to reusing the irrigation and cleaning water. 339 solar panels were installed on six of the winery buildings -without harming the overall harmony of the landscape-, capable of producing 100,00 kw of clean energy per year, thus avoiding the emission of 73 tonnes of CO2 per year. The use of alternative energy is one of the project’s key features.
Villa Matilde currently operates with a composite system of solar panels with the partial support of a traditional electrical grid. The first actions were directed at water recovery and electrical savings, achieved through an overall facility recalibration and the exploitation of alternative energy sources.
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The project addressed the totality of the winery’s production and management activities through a series of integrated interventions, ranging from work in the vineyards to final distribution. In 2009, the Anno Internazionale del Pianeta Terra (International Year of Planet earth), Villa Matilde launched its “Zero Emissions” project, a comprehensive programme of environmental sustainability, with the objective of progressively reducing greenhouse gasses and of producing wine in an eco-compatible way.
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