This ongoing project began several years ago and aims to rescue long forgotten, often nameless, vines in plots of land inherited from a previous generation of viticulture. The research is made possible because of the large and diverse heritage of the area where Cantina Valpolicella Negrar is based, managed by its own growers following the daily routines of viticulture. Thanks to this synergy between experience in the field and professionalism, the Cantina benefits from a "shared knowledge" that increases day by day, and allows the scientific and technical identification of the hidden potential of Valpolicella’s wines.
The project for restoration of old varieties is just one example: a vine showing  particularly interesting differences is selected and monitored, then analyzed at the winery to try and uncover its identity. The result is sometimes a genuine discovery, as in the case of Spigamonte, a grape variety found by a wine grower in his locality, and now at an advanced stage of study with a view to its inclusion in the national register of red wine grapes.
The long-term goal of this project is the identification of rare and forgotten traditional varieties, which bring with them unique and unparalleled values from the land, and to include them among the local grape varieties permitted under the recently updated DOCG regulations.