VINTAGE 2018
Inebriating scent.

Perfume is an element of wine identity.
The expert's sense of smell recognizes the wine as soon as he smells it.
The perfume tells the story, the journey, the character and the sensitivity of the grape nectar.

The glass is the container in which the wine reveals its unique and original message.
The story of his life in a minute of inebriating fragrance.
A wine without perfume is a wine without a future.

In this vintage we will discover why the olfactory essence has become inebriating.
Why does this wine exalt with that pleasant stupor and intense enjoyment, that exhilaration that caresses and inebriates all the senses?

Winter enters the stage of the farm with kindness and with the zeal of a gentleman it treats the vines with a mild and serene climate.
As spring approaches, the weather records temperatures above the seasonal average.

The days are beautiful and precede budding by some time, which occurs early.
The buds show off small green tips which are the epiphany of their blossoming, while the leaves unfurl giving space to the bunches which, once united, untie to experience their independence.

In the months of March and April the climate remains warmer than usual and accelerates the buds that bring out the wisdom of the mild winter.

Water is vital and comes to irrigate the farm's vineyards with the right doses.
May and June are rainy and appropriately level the water reserves, guaranteeing refreshment for the summer that is increasingly approaching.

The climatic summer begins in the second half of June a little before its baptism on the summer solstice.
Summer temperatures grow in small steps and with kindness, forgotten by previous years: it is the year of exhilaration, which has its beauty in the dose.
The maximum temperature never exceeds the threshold of 32 degrees and this journey, in the temperate heat, accompanies us until the end of the summer.

Summer cheers up and refreshes the vineyards by dispensing, here and there, various rain events, accompanied by evenings airy by the blowing of the wind that cheers up the end of the day.
The flowering of the vines occurred at the beginning of June, more precisely on the 4th. As always, the flowering occurs without preaching but spreading its exalting scent of the stupor of the senses, in favor of a sense of contemplative peace. The evenings were particularly beautiful, the sky gave the light of a candle that brings refreshment to those who, like us, are makers of wines and not carriers of baskets. Little by little the night takes on dreams, leading us to awaken in the morning.

Veraison is an important phenological phase of ripening which is noticeable thanks to the changing colors of the external part of the grape fruit. This year it makes its first appearance in the third week of July, continuing calmly, with the slowness of an essay, to give its final taste in the days of August and September.
More precisely, in the Melo vineyard on August 16th and on September 2nd in the Anfiteatro vineyard.
The month of September is a particular month that shows two faces: that of the hot sun and the cold moon.
The days are pleasant and sunny but the temperature range is very strong.
This phenomenon is favorable and facilitates complete phenolic and aromatic maturation.
The grapes on the bunches hide the wine, like the body the soul and the sky the celestial secrets.
However, we feel the strength of the marriage between the essence of subtle energy and the dense energy of tangible and visible matter.

We have reached the end of the year in which words become stimulating stories of travel, just as happens when exploring new places.

The vineyards are ready for harvest and transmit notes with a fragrant scent, anticipating the inebriating and invisible scent of the wine to come.

The harvest of the reds begins in mid-September and ends in the first days of October, to be precise on October 2nd in the Anfiteatro vineyard and on October 10th in the Melo vineyard.

We greet you by remembering that a wine is never fully dressed if it does not wear its perfume.
The wine of the 2018 vintage wears the heady scent of pride.

As always we share something of the ancient wisdom of our beautiful country. Ladies and Gentlemen, here is the intoxicating trail
taken from a poem by Giovanni Pascoli:

“The hot herbs smoked nearby, in the circle that she intoxicated with the wave”