At the centre of the historic Barbaresco zone, Castello di Neive represents one of the Langhe’s most important custodians of old-vine heritage with its identity is deeply rooted in the historic old vineyards of Santo Stefano and Basarin.

In the rolling hills of Dogliani, where Dolcetto has shaped both landscape and identity for generations, Anna Maria Abbona stands as a compelling example of how old vines can preserve not only a grape variety, but also the cultural memory of a territory.

Rising from the sun-baked landscapes of Puglia’s Ionian coast, Masseria Le Fabriche is a place where old vines, ancient olive trees, and centuries of rural heritage converge in a single, living landscape, centred around a restored 17th-century masseria.

On the southern edge of the Primitivo di Manduria appellation, where vineyards meet Mediterranean scrub and the Ionian Sea lies just beyond the coastal horizon, Agricola Felline stands as one of Puglia’s most articulate interpreters of terroir and old-vine heritage.

Azienda Agricola Faraone has built its identity around the preservation of old vineyards and the protection of a distinctly territorial expression of Montepulciano, with its heart lying in three hectares of historic pergola-trained vineyards planted in 1962 and the 1980s that give shape to the winery’s most iconic wines.

Set along the ancient Setteponti road above Loro Ciuffenna, in the Valdarno di Sopra DOC of Tuscany, the Vigna delle Sanzioni is one of Italy’s most paradoxical vineyards: conceived as propaganda, preserved as heritage, and today reimagined as a living, working estate.

In the undulating mosaic of northeastern Veneto, few landscapes articulate the meaning of heroic viticulture as convincingly as Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco DOCG. This is heroism defined not by romance but by measurable constraint: slopes routinely exceeding 30 percent and, in their most dramatic sectors, rising far steeper; vineyards climbing from approximately 100 to nearly 500 metres above sea level; terraces engineered to prevent erosion; and a production model in which mechanisation remains excluded.

Beneath the castle of Conegliano, in the very heart of the city that gave birth to Prosecco, lies a vineyard unlike any other, planted within the walls of Villa Gera. Many of the vines in this historic parcel are over a century old.