Mission
The Consortium
di Tutela e Valorizzazione delle Viti e del Vino Doc Bivongi embraces an area of great winemaking tradition, dating back even to the times of Magna Graecia when Hellenic influences were very strong along the Ionian coasts of Calabria, to the point of inspiring the life and culture of the local populations.
Among the practices imported by the Greeks were those related to the cultivation of vines and their transformation into wine, considered one of the best in the entire Mediterranean.
Along the course
of history other cultures have refined the ability to produce wine around Bivongi, first and foremost the Basilian monks who, in order to escape persecution, retreated to live inland bringing their knowledge a agricultural and food and wine. The Greek influence, however, is the one that most influenced the evolution of local society, so much so that in the villages around Bivongi religious and cultural rituals of Hellenic emanation are still maintained and the Greek language itself is spoken fluently among the local elders.
Nel 2018
a group of winemakers from the Ionian strip of Reggio formed the “Consorzio di Tutela e Valorizzazione delle Viti e del Vino Doc Bivongi,” with the mission of protecting and promoting the Bivongi Doc wine, which is produced on the eastern slope of the Serre Range, in the lower valley of the Stilaro stream whose territories were the cradle
of the city of Kaulonia in 700 BC.
The geographical area falling under the auspices of the Consortium is composed of ten villages: Bivongi, Camini, Caulonia, Monasterace, Pazzano, Placanica, Riace, Stignano, Stilo and Guardavalle.
