“Good wine grows in the vineyard”
An healthy and environmental respectful approach, together with research and technology, have always been the inspiring principles of our family.
We believe that good wine grows in the vineyard. That’s why we commit ourselves to produce high quality grapes, respecting the typical of each cultivar. Helped by valid cooperators, we follow directly all the steps of elaboration in the vineyards, dedicating carefully and precisely to vineyards’ needs, so as they can express their highest potential.
Recent studies established that grape vine produces an extraordinary substance called resveratrol, it protects vine against climate injuries and ageing conveying in the wine its beneficial effects. Only this beneficial substance is not enough as far as the good result of the grape is concerned; also our continuous and constant commitment is needed.
Work inside vineyard involves us for most part of the year, approximately 800 worked hours/ha. Elaborations, included grape harvest, are manually performed by a team of experienced workers under Emanuela’s supervision. Each row and every single vine are lovely followed in order to foster a quality production.
We adopt a targeted phytosanitary fight, focused on the decrease of the vineyard’s operations. We don’t use chemical composts and during past time we succeeded in cancelling the use of pesticides; in order to defend the ground now we use two products with animal origin like cupper and sulphur, thus respecting and protecting the vines and the environment. For years, together with our colleagues and nearby winegrowers, we have been opposing the attacks of the noisy moths, exclusively using pheromones, the most up-to-date and ecological way to defense. All this contributes to keep and increase the microbiological vitality of the ground, which represents its unique and real fertility. Resuming: healthy grape, from healthy grounds.
“Doing less in order to do better”: this is our motto inside the vineyard. In order to let grapes grow up with more nourishment and sun energy, we carry out the so-called “green grape harvest”. Namely we cut the supernumerary grapes at the time of veraison. Moreover, for the finest productions, like the Teroldego Rotaliano “Dragon’s blood”, slightly before the grape harvest we eliminate the last berries of each bunch. The tip, or final part of the bunch is in fact the less fine and presents less ripe berries. Through these small cares we foster a quality-oriented production, where the last goal is to reach a perfect natural productive-vegetal balance inside the Vineyard.
Working with precision and commitment inside the vineyard allows us to obtain very healthy grapes, we pick up only when they reach the best ripeness degree. For each kind of grape we search for and personally test inside the vineyard the perfect phenolic and aromatic ripeness. The final choice of the time suitable for grape harvest becomes the synthesis between the weather evolution and the real ripeness of the bunches: a joyful challenge repeating in an ever different way during any grape harvest.
