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NATURAL WINES BY VALLI UNITE
Valli Unite is a farming cooperative in Costa Vescovato, in the Colli Tortonesi of south-east Piedmont. Three young local farmers, Ottavio Rube among them, set it up in 1981 to keep farming rather than leave the land. Today a few dozen people farm around 100 hectares, sharing the jobs and earning the same, with vines alongside cereals, a vegetable garden, Piedmontese cattle, bees and an agriturismo.
They moved to natural winemaking from 2006, and since 2013 every fermentation has been spontaneous, with only small amounts of sulphur. Most wines ferment in stainless steel and rest in cement, and the grapes are local: Barbera, Dolcetto, Croatina, Cortese, Timorasso and Favorita. Ottavio Rube Rosso and Bianco, Alessandrino and the Bag in Box Rosso are everyday favourites, Terragno is a skin-contact Cortese and Favorita aged in acacia, and San Vito and Derthona show the more serious side of Timorasso.
