REGISTRATION & CRITERIA

Registration & criteria for the Vella Terra natural wine fair

At Vella Terra, we value all winemakers who choose to produce wine with minimal intervention, and we stand firmly against “Fake” natural wine.

We are the only natural wine fair in Spain, and one of the few in Europe, that requires wine analysis from all exhibitors. We visit the wineries ourselves and have strict participation criteria, some of the most rigorous when it comes to natural wine fairs.

We know that until there is clear labeling in the wine industry, and as long as it’s so easy to sell fake natural wine in the market, those of us who organize fairs like these have the responsibility to provide clarity to the final consumer.

PARTICIPATION CRITERIA VELLA TERRA NATURAL WINE FAIR

IF YOU ARE A WINERY INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN VELLA TERRA, YOUR WINE MUST MEET THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:

Organic/biodynamic farming, sustainable cultivation techniques, manual work in the winery, no commercial yeasts in fermentation, no chemical herbicides, no fungicides or products with phosphonates, no cisgenic or transgenic grapes, and no use of products derived from GMOs.

No filtering, no fining, no selected yeasts, no oenological additives in the wine such as oak chips, powdered tannins, mega purple, lysozymes, malic acid, calcium carbonate, or lactic acid. No technical manipulations during the winemaking process such as reverse osmosis, flash pasteurization, thermovinification, thermal treatment, tangential flow filtration, no microfiltration, micro-oxygenation, etc. No fining or stabilization with albumin, casein, gelatin, bentonite, or pectic enzymes.

Recovery and promotion of local grape varieties. Wine producers present at the fair to ensure direct contact. No added sulfites, or in extreme cases, doses of less than 30 mg per liter, reflected in the analysis of each wine.

As a leader in the industry, Vella Terra is backed by years of dedicated work, promoting the sector in a professional and authentic manner. If you wish to explore our complete history and access our previous editions, click here.