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 […]
On August 7th at the Cudé vineyard in Traona (Valtellina, Sondrio), Davide and I observed the ripening progress to make necessary decisions. The hardy terracing showed all its variability in terms of vines vigour, quantity and quality of grapes, degree of maturation, pathologies, and even nibbles made by birds. When […]
Soil is a complex living organism, not well known and dynamic. We are all subordinated to it, that means that we depend on a thin layer of the Earth and on the water that rains on it. The grape and then the wine are both strictly dominated by the soil, […]
