For the second consecutive year, FPT Industrial took a leading role at the Grape Harvest Festival held in the evocative setting of the Fontanafredda wine estate in Serralunga d’Alba in Italy’s Piedmont region. The event included guided visits, tastings of dishes cooked by Michelin-starred chefs, concerts, and the traditional crushing of the grapes.
As in 2021, FPT Industrial’s presence at this important event was primarily focused on sustainability. One of the highlights of the tour was the cru Vigna La Rosa, whose Barolo wine features in Wine Spectator’s Top 100. Here, for the second year, the precious Nebbiolo grapes are grown and harvested with the aid of a New Holland TK Methane Power crawler tractor with biomethane-fueled FPT Industrial F28 Natural Gas engine, and thus with net-zero carbon footprint, since it is powered not by fossil fuel but by methane derived from the anaerobic digestion of agricultural waste.
The participants were able to admire the biomethane-powered crawler tractor with its FPT Industrial engine at first hand, and obtain all information on the harvest directly from Fontanafredda’s agronomist and from an FPT Industrial specialist.
Launched in February 2021, the three-year partnership between FPT Industrial, the world’s top producer of low environmental impact engines, and Fontanafredda, the historic winery founded by the first King of Italy in 1858, which currently has 120 hectares of certified organic vineyards, forms part of the Green Renaissance project, launched to promote best-practice grape cultivation with reduced environmental impact. The partnership is supported by the Piedmont Region’s Tobias Project with contributions from New Holland Agriculture, CNH Industrial, and local businesses.
Source: FPT Industrial
