NEW ENTREPRENEUR (NE)
Country: France
Name: Aurélien Prouillac
Age: 21
Activity Sector: Agricolture, bio-dinamic sector, wine production
Company/Contacts: Domaine Michel Prouillac – Le
Mayne -24240 -Sigoulès, Francia
HOST ENTREPRENEUR (HE)
Country: Italy
Name: Francesco Saverio Petrilli
Age: 46
Years of Experience: 16 years
Sector: Agricolture, bio-dimanic sector, wine production
Company: Tenuta di Valgiano – via di Valgiano, 7 -55018
Valgiano (LU), Italia
Duration of the exchange: 2 months
Brief Introduction – hosting company: Tenuta di Valgiano is situated at an altitude of 250 meters above sea level on the hillside 10 km North-East of charming town of Lucca in northern Tuscany, not far from the Tyrrhenian Coast. The climate is Mediterranean with large amount of light that allows optimal maturation pollrenolìche. The vineyards are conducted with
agricultural practices sensibility. including biodynamic practices, with the aim of obtaining the quality of grapes can best express the territor. Winemaking techniques are traditional, with minimum technology interference.
The intention is to produce, in the simplest way possible, wine is the ‘expression of the place in which it is grown;
the guest was looking for a young entrepreneur interested in biodynamic agriculture and the production of wines.
Aurélien: I chose the Erasmus program because I wanted to go abroad, learn to do the imprendìlore and enrich
My knowledge on viticulture. I chose the llalla because it is a country that has un’ottim to repu tation for quality wines and also because I have Italian origins. I was really happy to go to Italy. I chose to exchange an entrepreneur
working in the field delragricoltura biodynamic because I believe the future of agricultural development is in this biologic direction. So I was interested to discover Italy, in wines and biodynamic agriculture. I was immediately
seduced by the Tenuta di Valgiano, by her beauty, by the people who live and work by its wines. I actually
spent two months learning and rich in emotions.
Activities:
Auréllen has learned a lot about the wine sector and on biodynamic In general. “We worked together in the vineyards by the classical works of this season (banish pull on the wires, tying the young plants, engage,
do biological treatments with sulfur and copper, remove the leaves with spots of mildew. etc. In the cellar we made
decanting, the wine tasting, we bottled white and red wines. We also participated in two meetings with farmers in biodynamic and two exhibitions of biodynamic wine “Vinitaly” and “VINO vino vino”
Results:
Rosario:
Aurélien has learned a lot about how to work using organic methods and
biodynamic, he also learned a lot about the quality of the soil, about the kinds of land, on the uninviting wine. “It was very positive” (entrepreneur guest)
“After this experience abroad I have more confidence in myself and in my project to take back the estate of my father and to implement my project of biodynamic agriculture.” (Aurélien)
For Further Information
Intermediary organization of the host entrepreneur
CSCS – Dott. Stefano Tirati
stefano.tirati@gmail.com
Intermediary organization of the young entrepreneur
I2ER – Dott. Aline Gaucher
aline.gaucher@i2er.eu
This article was funded by the European Union’s COSME Programme (2014-2020).
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