Vitale Barberis Canonico

Wool tales

Vitale Barberis Canonico is proud to present the work of those who, far from fashion catwalks and designer shows, dedicate their lives to the production of the most prized wools in the world. Wool Tales puts the spotlight on Australia, highlighting breeders who, through skill and dedication, supply the best possible raw materials. The quality of our final products cannot help but be founded on a search for excellence up and down the supply chain because this is the first, fundamental ingredient for the creation of quality fabrics.

List of Australian farms selected by Vitale Barberis Canonico

  1. BROADACRES/TYO
  2. CH/HILLSIDE
  3. CLAVERING
  4. CM/KELVIN VALE/NE
  5. Coliban Park
  6. DM / MIENA
  7. EML / GLENHOLME
  8. GLENDOFFIE MUDGEE
  9. Glenholme
  10. GM/BIG RIDGE/NE
  11. GREENHILLS
  12. HBR / STANLEYVALE
  13. HILLCRESTON HEIGHTS
  14. JEC in Diamon/Omeo
  15. JHArrow/Argyle/New England
  16. JW/Uralla
  17. Kashmir
  18. KINGSTON/TASMANIA
  19. Kooringa "Trim Pastoral"
  20. Macquarie Hills
  21. Moorilla/Min
  22. PS Buchan
  23. RC THE VALE
  24. Rhodes
  25. ROCKVALE NORTH / ARMIDALE
  26. RON / NEW ENGLAND / WALCHA
  27. SIERRA PARK
  28. SNOWHILL "Myrtlewood Pastoral"
  29. TPC / GLENBURNIE / NE
  30. Winton

Wool Excellence Club

Behind the quality of Vitale Barberis Canonico fabrics, there are many people who love their work, carrying it out with competence and passion. Most of all, the Australian breeders who dedicate their lives to the research for excellence and to the well-being of their animals. Vitale Barberis Canonico wanted to bring them together, and created the Wool Excellence Club in 2014, whose aim is to recognise and remunerate the quality of the wool, establishing a direct, individual and enduring relationship with the individual breeders, in a logic of virtuous cooperation. The four pillars on which the club is founded are quality, training, loyalty and sustainability.

Wool Excellence Award

The company has also established the Wool Excellence Award, which annually recognises the farm that has produced the highest-quality wool while ensuring animal welfare, with a financial prize and a trip to Italy to visit Vitale Barberis Canonico’s facilities. The award is open to members of the Club and considers the entire wool supply from the relevant shearing year (July to June). Quality parameters (are evaluated by professional classers, alongside sustainability prerequisites (adherence to at least one Animal Welfare protocol, and paddock raised animals).

On Friday, 15th November, Vitale Barberis Canonico proudly presented the 2024 Wool Excellence Award to the winners, Everard and Matthew Linke from EML Glenholme. They received the award in the splendid setting of the Joseph Chromy wine cellars in Tasmania, in the presence of members of the Wool Excellence Club, of local institutions and the international press.

Palmares

2014
2014

Glenburnie, Kentucky, New South Wales, by the Hawksford family.

2015
2015

Miena, Lemont, Tasmania, by Desmond Manning and family.

2016
2016

Elenora, Mininera, Western Victoria, by Garry and Sharon Meek.

2017
2017

Uralla, Dog Trap, New England, by the Wood family.

2018
2018

Sierra Park, Victoria Valley, Victoria by the Crawford family.

2019
2019

Coliban Park, Metcalfe, Victoria, by Duncan and Jess Barber

2023
2023

Winton, Tasmania, by the Taylor family

2024
2024

EML Glenholme, Hamilton, Victoria, by Everard and Matthew Linke