A few days ago, the OIV surprised us with an exchange of ideas on the topic of natural wines that I was able to follow in a dedicated webinar on December the 18th 2020. This happened following the general assembly of December the 3rd in which 18 resolutions for sustainability […]
After having read your article “Is Natural Wine Dead? The movement, built on honesty and simplicity, is being corrupted by opportunists”, I felt it was necessary to respond, also because I am a sixth generation wine producer of what today is called ‘natural’ wine (minimal intervention in vineyard and wine […]
After many relatively stable centuries, agriculture in our recent history has made very diverse choices, expressing an extraordinary growth in production, especially thanks to the new more productive varieties, mainly chemical fertilization, irrigation, the general use of crop protecting products and herbicides and growing mechanization. On the other hand, the […]
The vineyard, grape and wine have accompanied people and civilisations from the earliest times, but we can’t yet fully understand this extraordinary richness. It would be useful, informative and even enjoyable to retrace the testimonials that provide us with the archaeology of the territories, the literature from the oldest writings […]
At the beginning of my career in research, I had the opportunity to work on genetic improvements in cereals. In fact, by coincidence, when it came to deciding the topic of my thesis, I found myself grinding corn cobs, sowing the different ‘genetic lines’, performing the phenological studies, and checking […]