VINEYARDS

VINEYARDS ACTIVITIES
Our cultivation criterion starts from respect for man and the environment in which he lives. We follow the organic farming protocol with limited use of pesticides and no herbicides. For this reason, the control of the spontaneous herbs that grow in the vineyard is done mechanically with shredding and mowing, sometimes even manually. The fertilizations are exclusively based on manure and microelements of biological origin. Furthermore, we practice green manure with legumes and crucifers in alternate rows to keep the soil soft and airy and bring additional organic substance.

PRUNING
Vines are trained on vertical trellis, following the Guyot System;. Every year it is necessary to remove the shoots that have vegetated the previous year and produced the grapes, leaving only one that will be the new fruiting head.

TYING
The fruit head that remains, which is carefully chosen during pruning, must be folded in a horizontal position forming a light arch that balances the flow of sap. The new shoots will start from the various buds of the fruiting head.

SUCKERING
In addition to the buds of the fruiting head, on the vine stock there are some that produce useless shoots called "suckers". When they reach 20/30 cm they are removed to let the vine concentrate its energies on the buds of the fruiting head.

GREEN PRUNING
With the lengthening of the shoots, which become shoots, and the clusters come out, accessory tracts called "feminelle" are formed which create a disordered and excessive leaf mass. It is necessary to remove them to aerate the leaf mass and the growing bunches. A long work to be done by hand with delicacy and experience

THINNING
At veraison, which signals the beginning of grape ripening, it is necessary to balance the quantity of bunches for each vine. An expert sorting work removes the excess bunches to allow uniform ripening of the grapes left on the vine.

HARVEST
it is the much coveted goal that must be done strictly by hand, in pairs of workers who move the box in which they deposit the bunches which, now ripe, must finally arrive in the cellar





