The Città del Vino ('Home of Good Wine') logo is sponsored by the National Association of Wine-Making Towns, which brings together towns which have given their name to a wine, which make DOC wine in their own area, or which are somehow linked to wine through their history, tradition, and culture, with the aim of fostering the promotion and enhancement of the resources of the environment and the landscape of the wine-making areas of the over 500 municipalities which belong to it, as well as their artistic, historical and tourism resources.
The aim of the Città del Vino group is to document the great wealth of products, traditions and culture in the areas it represents, to promote people’s awareness of them, and foster the awareness, inside them and elsewhere, that they represent an important resource, setting up a permanent network to promote Italy’s system of high-quality agricultural products, in Europe and throughout the world.

Indeed, it is no coincidence that the wines of Tuscany speak a noble and ancient language.
For centuries, simple families and aristocratic families have devoted themselves to cultivating the vine, a practice which dates back to the Etruscans, who made wine as far back as before the 8th century BC.
As a result, the regional landscape and the landscape of Colle di Val d'Elsa has been shaped over the years by vine-growing, which has made it extraordinarily beautiful to look at, in a land of rolling hills, sunlit panoramas, and colours covering the whole range from ochre to green.
Added to this tradition in Colle there is a very special value, the production of lead-glass crystal, especially crystal-glass table ware, and even more especially glassware for wines and wine-tastings.
All the towns in the Città del Vino group abide by a code of behaviour which involves identifying within their area those sites which historically have given continuity of high-quality grapes, allowing the development of wines of a particularly high standard.
These sites are identified on the basis of the historical nature of wine-making, or for unique aspects of wine-making due to environmental factors, or the use of particular grape varieties, or else on account of the unique beauty of the landscape.
Similarly, the Città del Vino towns identify buildings which constitute monuments to wine-making, putting forward and harmonizing a clear strategy of research into the commitment to quality, and the historical and cultural prerogatives linked to wine.
Città del Vino towns take on responsibility for protecting these values, including by means of environmental and production safeguards, and also by means of the most suitable methods of town planning.

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