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Over the years our agronomist Valerio
Barbieri has taught me that the care you take in the vineyards is at the
bottom of it all. The objective is to reach the grape harvesting with perfectly
sound bunches and perfect skins ready to express all their fruit, essence
and aromas in the vinification. These are the traits you need to make an
excellent wine.
Emotions for the harvest, an extremely exciting moment, from the first sampling
of the grapes to make sure that the moment of picking is just right, to
the fermentation stage where the temperature, the repassing of the grape
dregs over the must, the pressing and the length of the maceration all make
a difference.
Emotions for the job in the wine cellar where, after careful malolactic
fermentation, the blending of the different wines to be produced takes
place.
This is the place where the gift, the inspiration of the oenologo, Luca
D'Attoma, along with our know-how, are free to express themselves fully before
moving on to the maturing and fining stage. I like to get other people involved in what I do and I hope that one
day I will be able to create a wine capable of communicating the exact
same sensations that this marvellous world gives me.
It is probably a dream; it is certainly a challenge. This newsletter has
a double task: it means to present Castelvecchio and to describe our activity.
It is made especially for those people who love wine and want to learn
to read the "message" it encloses.
We dedicate our dream, our challenge to each and every one of them.
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