The official presentation of the dossier is a further step procedure in the application to get a coveted award. Asti, meanwhile, was set up the ' Association for the wine heritage of the countryside of the Langhe, Roero and Monferrato , which ratified the agreement reached by the entire area covered by the job.
The Association aims to develop awareness of the treasures, as well as protect, enhance and protect the same. The Province of Cuneo is a founding member, together with those of Asti and Alessandria and the Piemonte Region. The nomination comes after years of preparation - if talked about since 2002 - and 150 thousand euro investment. Was announced in 2010 by then President Mercedes Bresso, and Summer hours officially filed. A dossier
a thousand pages''that identifies nine 'core zone' within a 'buffer zone' consisting of 74 municipalities whose territory and 'cultivated with grapes from the large DOC and DOCG, for which have been found is exceptionally 'also in terms of issues of historicity' and typical ', as well as the pleasure of sight and high quality' of the landscape.''
The areas covered in the project are nine, each tied to a wine Freisa, Barbera, Barbaresco, Barolo, Grignolino, Dolcetto di Dogliani and three varieties' of Muscat. Around them the''buffer zone''of the 73 municipalities that connects them all, but can not 'fall within the job.
It is a landscape of rolling hills of Monferrato and Roero and those of the Langhe, the ridges more 'sharp. The vines are planted in concentric rows on hills, bordering forests and hazel. Countries have Romanesque churches, squares and terraces, and streets grange. It 'a landscape that speaks of working and peasant life, which must be protected, says the report presented for the application, including its intangible assets''.'' Namely, the characteristics of residential homes, ways of being together, and especially the wisdom of those who produce great wines for generations.
It 's a job that would lead these important areas to be part of a small elite: the landscapes are few in fact already written to the wine list of UNESCO World Heritage: the Douro region in Portugal, vineyards the volcanic island of Pico in the Azores, the area of \u200b\u200bTokaj in Hungary, that of Saint Emilion in France and the Middle Rhine Valley in Germany. Last to get the recogni were the terraced vineyards facing Lake Geneva and the Alps in the Swiss region of Lavaux.
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