Another positive year for Cantina di Venosa

More 11% of bottles offered, more 17% of turnover. This is the development taped by #CantinadiVenosa (Pz) in 2023 compared to the previous year, a figure that as soon as again validates the favorable financial pattern of the #Vulture red wine #cooperative, the just one in #Basilicata and amongst the most crucial in the sector in the south Italy. These are the information in summary: 1.9 million bottles in 2023 compared to 1.7 million offered in 2022; roughly 7.4 million euros invoiced in 2023 compared to roughly 6.3 million euros in 2022. A much more substantial pattern if determined over the five-year duration: compared to 2019, roughly 30% more in worth and 72% in volume, as highlighted in the table listed below.

” These are necessary numbers that mark an advancement course that we have actually been dealing with for several years with numerous tasks on numerous fronts– commented the president of Cantina di Venosa, Francesco Perillo -. For instance, we have actually just recently transformed our logistics company to make the storage facility and order management more effective, using robotic equipment. And for several years we have actually been growing with a sustainability technique, a style on which we are engaged with numerous tasks, consisting of satellite scanning of a progressively substantial part of our vineyards, presently 150 hectares, to have a picture of the vegetative cycle which enables us to understand with severe accuracy where water tension conditions or dangers of pathogenic illness take place and step in quickly. However in addition to the Guard 2 task– includes President Perillo– we have actually long been dedicated to financial and social sustainability. We have actually promoted a Code of Ethics for workers, providers and consumers; we have actually embraced a set of voluntary requirements and accreditations that even more make sure the wholesomeness of the red wines. The Sustainability Report was born in 2022 and in 2015 the Equalitas accreditation on ecological sustainability got here. We will quickly finish the very first part of the work of a big redevelopment task of our cellar, with a sustainable architecture task.”

Established in 1957 by 27 members, Cantina di Venosa is today a cooperative of 350 wine makers (over 50% young) and 800 hectares of vineyards, with a yield of 50 thousand quintals of grapes (90% Aglianico del Vulture) and 35 thousand hectoliters of red wine. In general it produces nearly 2 million bottles – out of a capacity of 5 million – and 21 labels, mainly Aglianico del Vulture Doc and Docg.

The turnover of the Cooperative in the last fiscal years:

31/08/2019 5.725.01431/ 08/2020 5.891.93031/ 08/2021 5.448.49131/ 08/2022 6.325.21131/ 08/2023 7.423.916

Bottles Offered 2019 n ° 1,100,000 Bottles Offered 2020 n ° 1,200,000 Bottles Offered 2021 n ° 1,500,000 Bottles Offered 2022 n ° 1,700,000 Bottles Offered 2023 n ° 1,900,000

The Code of Ethics of Cantina di Venosa is a file that develops the basic concepts and actions influenced by the worths of sustainable advancement (financial, ecological and social) and suitable with business development goals and with the defense of the area and standard productions; in line with the art. 1 of law no. 238 of 12 December 2016 (Consolidated Law on Vine and Red Wine), which thinks about red wine to be a “nationwide cultural heritage”. White wine, an item of the vine, the vine and the wine-growing areas, as the fruit of work, of the mix of abilities, understanding, practices and customs, make up a nationwide cultural heritage to be secured and improved in regards to social, financial, efficient, ecological and cultural”.

Cantina di Venosa does far more for food security than needed by law. It has actually embraced a set of voluntary requirements and accreditations that even more ensure the customer of the healthiness of the red wines. Amongst these, a production procedure management system certified with ISO 22005:2008 (incorporated with the BRCG variation 9 and IFS variation 7 requirements), which ensures food security requirements likewise for customer-branded items and for all those planned for massive retail trade.