VIN DE LIEGE

About VIN DE LIEGE

Vin de Liège is a cooperative winery based in Heure-le-Romain, in the Liège region of Belgium. It was created to develop a local wine activity rooted in the Liège area, drawing on historically viticultural land and on a cooperative, social-economy model. The company produces wines from its own vineyards and operates a winery designed specifically for quality winemaking.

The project positions itself as both a wine producer and a regional initiative: it aims to make quality wines adapted to local conditions while contributing to the economic and social redevelopment of Liège. Its approach combines technical rigor, environmental respect, and a strong cooperative identity, with members and supporters involved in the life of the project.

Core Values

• Quality: The winery emphasizes high standards in both viticulture and vinification, using a gravity-flow cellar and thermoregulated tanks to support careful wine aging and production.
• Environmental respect: Vin de Liège highlights organic viticulture, reduced sulfite levels, biodiversity restoration, and techniques chosen to limit environmental impact.
• Social commitment: The cooperative model is presented as a way to create jobs, support social reintegration, and involve cooperators in a meaningful local project.
• Local identity: The company seeks to reconnect wine production with the Liège region, both symbolically and economically, and to produce wines that local people can identify with.

Unique Aspects

• Cooperative with a social purpose: Vin de Liège is a social-purpose cooperative created in 2010, with an explicitly alternative economic model that combines financial sustainability with human and environmental values.
• Purpose-built gravity winery: Its cellar in Heure-le-Romain was designed for gravity-based winemaking, thermoregulated tanks, and optimal aging conditions, reflecting a strong technical focus.
• Organic certification: The winery obtained organic certification in 2017, reinforcing its positioning around environmentally respectful production.
• Liège-rooted vineyard network: The vineyards are mainly located in the Liège region, across several named parcels, and the company also plans to reinforce its local identity with a vineyard on the slopes of the Citadel in Liège.
• Member participation: Cooperators are described as real actors in the project, with opportunities to take part in vineyard work and harvests, which gives the company a participatory character uncommon in many wineries.