During the presentation of the guide, the prize-giving ceremony for the three Slow Wine Awards (lifetime, young wine-maker and sustainable wine-growing) were also consigned.

October 2021 – FPT Industrial has confirmed and expanded its partnership with Slow Food by participating at the presentation of the 2022 edition of the Slow Wine Guide to the best Italian wineries, held on 8 October at Palazzo Castiglioni in Milan, during the city’s Wine Week. The twelfth edition, which includes reviews of 1,958 wineries, sees the return of two of the guide’s most important characteristics, suspended in 2020 due to the pandemic.

First of all, the team’s visits to the wineries, a unique feature amongst wine guides, and secondly the return of the guide’s distinctive rating system, its Snails, the symbol awarded to wineries that interpret the values of sensory, territorial and environmental excellence in tune with the Slow Food philosophy. This year 218 wineries received the coveted Snails, including 23 new entries. The region with the most Snails is Piedmont, followed by Tuscany and Veneto.

 During the presentation of the guide, the prize-giving ceremony for the three Slow Wine Awards (lifetime, young wine-maker and sustainable wine-growing) were also consigned. The sustainable wine-growing award, promoted and sponsored by FPT Industrial, was presented to the Ceretto family of Alba, represented in Milan by cousins Alessandro and Roberta, by Daniela Ropolo, head of sustainable initiatives for CNH Industrial, who commented: “Since 2010 the Ceretto family, reinvigorated by an exemplary generational handover, has implemented a clear commitment to radically changing its growing techniques, with the conversion of its over 100 hectares of vineyards to certified organic methods, and since 2018 to biodynamic management. The winery’s innovation and sustainability combine to produce quality: these are values that CNH Industrial shares and promotes with conviction, also and above all in its industrial operations, which are increasingly required to harmonize perfectly with their host environment.”