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Weather Report 2012: The Green Harvest Is Fundamental For Us
By mid-June, the flowers on 90% of the vines had wilted and the grapes had begun to increase in size. Despite the fact that the weather has not been favorable, we have had an alternation between...
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This Will Not Be An Easy Harvest
In these last days, the Maestrale wind is blowing (the northwesterly wind of the Mediterranean). The temperatures during the day arrive at 34° C. while during the sunset they drop even to 20° C. Here...
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Harvesting And Pressing Olive Oil At The Tenuta Il Poggione
At Il Poggione, we have 12,000 olive trees planted over 80 hectares of land. The olives are picked by hand and taken immediately to our estate’s press where they are pressed within 6 hours of harvest....
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The 2012 Harvest Has Begun At The Tenuta Il Poggione
We have begun harvesting the Pinot Grigio. We are picking in the coolest hours, staring at 6:00 in the morning and stopping at 12:00. The grapes are at the correct point of ripening. In the next days,...
View ArticleWe Begin Picking Again In A Difficult Harvest (Haste Is A Bad Counselor)
This morning we have begun again the harvest. We had stopped after the days of light rain which all together arrived at 50mm. This, together with the decrease of the minimum temperatures to 15° and...
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Sangiovese Harvest In Montalcino Has Begun
We have begun to harvest the Sangiovese grapes with which we will produce the Brunello di Montalcino and the analytical data are excellent and the grapes are ready. During the controls in the...
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Harvest Is Nearly Over
Friday night and Sunday it rained a lot around Sant'Angelo, including Montalcino. On our estate, it only rained a little bit, just 3 millimeters to be exact. Yesterday, we have therefore begun the...
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Harvest 2012 Is Over
Yesterday we have finished repassing through the vineyards and picking the last bunches remaining. As I had anticipated already in August, the harvest of the 2012 Sangiovese has given unexpected...
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