Radici e Filari - 'ViV' - Arneis Blend - Langhe, Piemonte, IT - 2019

Following one of the most ancient traditions in winemaking ViV (or ‘life’) is a sparkling wine made in the ancestral method where, after spontaneous primary fermentation, secondary fermentation takes place in the bottle creating the CO2 which gives ViV its lovely perlage. It is unclarified, unfiltered and without added sulfites. Viv is intense and a bit wild. Plenty of rose, acacia flowers, almond, apple, resin and undergrowth. Lively and balanced with a lovely vein of acidity providing freshness and persistence.

For more than 30 years the Buganza family has been producing and bottling organically grown wines from the Langhe and Roero, in the heart of Piedmont. Grown with a craftsman’s care and passion in the Gerbole and Garbianotto hills, Radici e Filari’s vineyards are as old as 90 years in age. All are worked manually and organically with biodynamic principles playing an increasing role. Minimal intervention in the cellar with the use of the simplest ingredients: grapes, sun, water and earth result in wines that are allowed to express their truest selves.
“Our dream is a world… where the seasons, marked by the sowing and harvest, make us feel in harmony with nature, the earth and with people.” – Emanuele Buganza

PROPRIETORS Emanuele Buganza & Eugenio Bocchino
REGION Piedmon
APPELLATION Langhe, Roero
FOUNDED 1978
AREA 13ha
ANNUAL PRODUCTION 50,000 Bottles