The Italian Federation of Independent Winemakers ( FIVI ) with its official Statute was born on 17 July 2008 and today boasts more than 1300 winemakers registered individually or through regional associations.
FIVI was born because it is clear that the wine industry and trade have an interest in detaching themselves from their origins, from the territory, in order to be able to buy raw materials in one place or another, according to the convenience of the moment. But wine, especially in Italy, is not a raw material: it is instead an agricultural product, linked to the territory of origin and therefore must be defended, loved and honored.
An Independent Winemaker is someone who directly cultivates his own vineyard, makes wine from his own grapes, sells the products directly and personally defends the territory and its diversity, enhancing the origin of the product as a guarantee of quality .
The FIVI logo perfectly summarizes this concept: a little man carrying a basket of grapes and casting a shadow in the shape of a bottle.
The existence of the Winemaker is essential to ensure the consumer a wine that has a strong attachment to the territory. The winemaker grows his own grapes and therefore the origin of his wine is certified by the efforts made in the vineyard and in the cellar by the vigneron . Origin is not a secondary factor, especially if you want to drink a wine that is truly wine and not just a simple drink.
Because it is not true that all the wines marketed in Italy and around the world are linked to a territory and not all the wines that can be drunk have a strong brand of typicality and culture. We want to defend the figure of the winemaker because we are convinced that it is essential for the future of our lands and for that of Italian agriculture. 
We joined FIVI because the connection with the land has always been important for our family: we have always lived on the land and on the fruits of the land. We have the task of describing this land that has been handed down to us through the generations every day through the language of wine. The land we cultivate "is not ours"; we only have the duty to safeguard and preserve it for future generations from whom we have borrowed it.
What is "ours" instead is there responsibility to be careful and precise in the agronomic choices (and not only!) that determine the health of the territory in which we live and work. This responsibility represents a compass that guides all our decisions.
The eligibility parameters for the FIVI family are stringent and perfectly correspond to the direction of ''our compass''. In fact, the Independent Winemaker must:
1. Be the protagonist of your own company : cultivate the vineyards and produce the wine, directly taking care of all the phases up to the bottle. LE LASE in fact manages the entire supply chain completely independently to make all its wines, from the care of its vineyards, to vinification and bottle aging, through bottling and packaging, up to sale.
2. Putting your face on it : putting all or part of your harvest in bottles, under your own responsibility, with your own name and label.
3. Be sustainable : the FIVI winemaker respects the oenological standards of the profession, limiting the use of useless and expensive additives, and focusing attention on the production of healthy grapes. In fact, the vineyard is the first, fundamental step for a quality wine.
''We want to be producers who live and operate in a specific territory and who don't just take, but do their best to give; respecting, safeguarding, protecting and promoting the specific area in which we work. And this is how each bottle tells our story, returning with interest everything we have taken from the territory''.