Dear winelovers, even though we had to stand some rainy days during this harvest, we are now finally done with the harvest in Lavagno, Valpolicella Doc area, where our vines of Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella are.     The vintage, despite the drought that lasted for almost the whole summer and the hail storms that hit hard some places around us, gave us healthy and perfectly ripe grapes. The rain that we had to experience suring the harvest did slow down the rhythms a little, expecially for the Amarone since its grapes must be picked when they are...

The harvest is getting close and the grapes are getting close to ripeness. Some clusters are more ripe than others and the berries are all of the same colour. Though, some clusters take it easy and they take their time to ripe: you can recognize them because the berries colour may change from one berry to the other. This is what is called "veraison" or colour change. What veraison is? The veraison is the phenologic phase in which we can see the change of colour of the berries when they grow up well. In the case of the red grapes the colour of the berries from...

Dear friends, we started the harvest in August, picking the grapes of Pinot Grigio, and now we are finishing the grapes in Valpolicella Doc area. Still not long to go to start picking the Garganega grapes. Today we want you to discover something more on the grapes that characterizes Soave Classico area. Among the many and refined wines produced in Verona, only in the Soave Classico area, on the hills made of tuffaceous soil (volcanic origin) and calcareous outcrops, you can find the perfect marriage between the environment and the vine variety for the production of a high quality...

  After a few rainy weeks, finally summer is here and our vines are sunkissed. This is the moment of the year where, after flower initiation and bud set (the term that describes the passage from the flower to the fruit), we can see the fruits that the nature give us, as we all know them. The grapes are growing and in a short time berries will develop in size and at the end of the growing process the the bunch closure will take place, ready for the ripening. In this time of the year the best climate conditions are influenced by a shining sun and a warm temperature,...