Tag: harvest 2012

We are half the way #Harvest2011

September 16, 2011
Vino @en

We have done more than half, that’s a good thing. What can it be said already? 2011 harvest started two weeks earlier (you know that), but it is not going to end two weeks earlier, probably. some vineyards were negatively affected by a heat wave during the second half of August. other vineyards, who knows why, simply weren’t. It had rained nearly 150 mm in July, in two days, that’s a loto of water anywhere, but really unexpected in Maremma. After that rain, it hasn’t rained at all, and it is not going to rain -allegedly – until the end of the month. It’s so much easier working like this, planning the harvest of the different vineyards without having to …continua

It’s not us (who makes the wine), it’s them!

It’s not us (who makes the wine), it’s them!
September 11, 2011
Online harvest

I know that the phrase “the wine is made in the vineyards” is abused, but when you see those amazing old vines you realise that it must be true. In these pics you can see some of the best vineyards we use for our wines. There is a Ciliegiolo vineyard that is 45/50-years-old of age, with which we make the …continua