We are aware of receiving precious gifts from the Earth everyday. We are deeply committed to preserve our natural heritage, minimizing our energy consumption and ecological footprint, while promoting biodiversity and scientific progress on the study of varietals. So that our wines are not only good and healthy, but sustainable overall.
To minimize the environmental impact on the surrounding hills, our cellar has been built entirely underground.
This way we were able to reduce soil consumption, while taking advantage of the natural insulation and hygroscopicity of the ground, in order to have the ideal conditions for wine aging with no need for energy.
Part of the cellar roof and the parking have been covered with solar panels whose annual capacity is enough to cover our energetic needs.
On the terrace above the cellar, and around the winery, we chose to plant a big aromatic garden, a natural oasis with ethic as well as aesthetic purposes.
Other than providing a beautiful place to taste our wines surrounded by the Martinenga amphitheatre, the garden helps preserve the microclimate and biodiversity through the proliferation of precious insects, like honeybees, that help pollination and keep harmful parasites away from the vines.
Martinenga is home to the only experimental vineyard for the clonal selection of Nebbiolo in the Barbaresco area. Eleven different clones on an area of 2.600 square meters are constantly monitored by our team, in cooperation with agronomists and enologists of the National Research Council (CNR), to understand the many secrets these grapes still have to reveal, and how different clones respond to climate change.