Cribis D&B "RATING 1"

The new school year has just started, teachers, professors, lecturers will begin to give their judgments, verdicts and votes: children and adults’ obsession! The vote will pursue you the whole life; still when you will be old enough to know that “it relatively counts after all”, it will always be an angst!  An example, in the wine business all awaiting for the upcoming issue of the 2012 wine guides: good rates will be loved(primary!) , the others….“it relatively counts after all”…  But, there is a vote that always counts:  it is the Cribis Dun&Bradstreet ratification. On 2^nd September  2011 Cribis Dun&Bradstreet – the world’s leading supplier of business information and insight – appointed Castello di Gabbiano “RATING 1”, the official certificate of the highest level of creditworthiness and minimum risk of failure.   To be registered as a ‘D&B RATING1’ during such economical turmoil and to join only the 10% of all Italian companies who are also in this category, is something Castello di Gabbiano can be extremely proud of!

“A starry autumn night……A party in the Castle……..Groovin’ to the music of ………”

Ally Fox & Simone Graziano Trio

Friday 30th September 2011,  8:00pm 

Aperitifs, dinner, wine, jazz music, dance….and scent of the grape harvest in the air!

€ 55,00 person

Reservation is recommended: 

accommodations@castellogabbiano.it  

T. 055 8218059 / 055 821821 o cell. 3346429535 (Giulia or Cornelia)

The sky will decide it!   August  was good, at the end of the month grapes just needed some water, still wished to enjoy some good sunny days, warm temperatures and cooler nights…: in the first days of September we had a light rain, temperatures now fall in the seasonal average, nights are cooler, weather forecasts are good. We can be confident !(and anyway we are ready for harvest)

Meanwhile we invite you  to come and meet with us to taste our wines at the 41° Expo del Vino Chianti Classico, in Greve in Chianti: Thursday 8th, Friday 9th,  Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th.  We will be there waiting for you.

We wish those who are leaving on vacation  to enjoy e great vacation, those who will work to be succesful and all of our colleagues….an excellent grapes ripening!

The vines are in excellent physical and mental conditions (can avoid the psychologist’s assistance!) and show excellent foliage. The high temperatures we had beginning summer and the good water reserves we got from winter and spring rains gave an early veraison. In spite of our first strict selection of buds we still need to do cluster thinning in order to keep a reduced production and reach the optimal concentration we aim to.

…and, since any fair promise gives some anxiety of waiting… the pre-birth syndrome starts to manifest at the winery!…

Heaven permitting nature will do its work bringing the fruit to perfect ripeness, then the hand of man will have to translate this result in a fine wine,… but that’s another story! (to be continued…)

our wineclub is open.

Our WineClub members will enjoy exclusive advantages and will have access to our shop online. You can find all information and register by entering the wineclub area on our website http://www.castellogabbiano.it/en/wineclub/

Only condition is a privilege…(not bad!)

You can find all information and register from Tuesday July 5^th, entering the wineclub area

on our website http://www.castellogabbiano.it/en/wineclub/

Join us, we wait for you!

It seems it is trendy today to be a member of a club, to have access to a private area, to be personally invited to any event…. This makes you feel…a step above!

Yet, our wineclub is not opening on this purpose.

On the contrary, we decided to found our club in order to make distances shorter between Gabbiano and all of you who will to be part of our world. As a member of our club you will be in contact with us, you will be advised of any new vintage released, will have the possibility to reserve it and get it home.

Many of our visitors asked us to keep in touch, this is our answer.

We are waiting for you, please wait for us!

Let’s give life to this picture, on Friday 17^th June at 8:00pm, at Castello di Gabbiano: 

Ally Fox and his trio will play for us, aperitifs, dinner, wine,….all is ready!

€ 55,00 person

Reservation is recommended:  

accommodations@castellogabbiano.it  

T. 055 8218059 / 055 821821 o cell. 3346429535  (Giulia or Cornelia )

 We wait for you!

invitation to the art ehibition opening

Different art forms exist, they attract, reflect and translate each others, they play all together to give the highest intensity of an extraordinary composition, life.  At Castello di Gabbiano  we are used to read everything as a art work: grapes, flowers, wine, olives, oil, food, gardens, same as music, painting, sculpture…

Art was always present here, the castle has been since the 15th century a place of inspiration, namely for Michelangelo, and is still today thanks to its light and essential style, a great stimulus for artists.

For this reason the castle hosts every year an art exhibition.  This year Castello di Gabbiano will be hosting the colourful art work of Alex Milani.

Saturday 21st  May, 2001   at 5:30pm  opening of  Alex Milani art exibition.

The art exhibition will be hosted for the whole season, until October (visit on appointment : phone +39.0558218059 – +39.3346429535)

During the event Castello di Gabbiano Chianti Classico DOCG Riserva 2008 wine tasting

Castello di Gabbiano already hosted:

2008 – ‘Pitture e Sculture’ di Marc Reist

2009 – ‘The Spaces In Between’  , l’arte di Susi Bellamy

2010 – ‘Accendo l’Ora’, l’arte di Franco Fedeli

At first this opportunity will be available for those of you living in Italy, later hopefully we will be able to extend to all of you abroad!

Keep updated by visiting the WineClub area in our website or write to us and ask for information, or come and see us at Vinitaly:Verona 7/11 Aprile hall 8(Toscana) booth C9

vinitaly booth

Those who can speak wine know that ‘Spring’ is translated ‘Vinitaly’.  Therefore, spring has just arrived and we wish you “Happy Vinitaly”!

We know what to expect: traffic on the way, long queues, meetings, words, glasses(many…), wine(…even more!), rain, sun shining last day… Yes, Vinitaly usually opens in a rainy day and close with a nice warm spring sunny day!

We wait for you at our booth(Hall 8 booth C9) to taste new vintages of our wines and discover our spring news:

• Bellezza will show off a new dress: why?
• our Wine Club is going to open for people living in Italy(first), it will give access to our shop on-line!

a brilliant 2011

Dear friends,

many news are coming with the new year!

(…..a peek out: “Bellezza 2008 will show off a new suit!”, and some more to discover during the next weeks…)

Senza un giorno di ritardo Agosto arriva e ci trova tutti pronti a partire per le vacanze, e goderci il mare, i monti, il sole, il meritato riposo dopo un lungo periodo di  lavoro… Ma c’è chi, silenziosamente, continuerà a lavorare per noi, portando avanti la sua opera con costante e ininterrotto impegno: la Natura!

Nei vigneti la nostra uva sta compiendo il suo cammino verso la maturazione.

Vediamo i primi segni di invaiatura (il  viraggio di colore dell’uva, da verde a nero), un po’ in ritardo forse rispetto al solito, ma è normale in un anno in cui abbiamo avuto un lungo e piovoso inverno, seguito da una primavera fresca e ancora molto piovosa, protrattasi fino al mese di Giugno; queste condizioni hanno portato ad un tardo germogliamento e hanno fatto slittare di conseguenza ogni fase successiva, la fioritura e l’allegagione (la trasformazione delle infiorescenze in acini, in grappoli).

Fortunatamente le alte temperature del mese di Luglio hanno spronato le viti “alla ricerca del tempo perduto”, e parte del ritardo è stato recuperato. Ci auguriamo che la stagione mantenga un buon andamento per tutto Agosto e poi Settembre, per permettere una regolare e piena maturazione dell’uva.

Le riserve idriche accumulate dal terreno durante la lunga stagione piovosa garantiscono una buona autonomia anche di fronte ad una estate assai calda e asciutta, come ci si sta prospettando. Teniamo d’occhio i nostri vigneti più recenti, le cui giovani viti hanno radici ancora non abbastanza lunghe, forse, per andare a trovare l’acqua in profondità; se sarà il caso interverremo in loro aiuto.

Le condizioni di salute delle viti e dell’uva sono ottime ad oggi e, come si dice,  “quando c’è la salute….”!

Quindi, possiamo augurare buon lavoro a Madre Natura e…buone vacanze a tutti!

August is here punctual!

No one day late, August is here and we are all prompt to welcome it and take a break, a  vacation to enjoy seaside, mountain, sun, relax: our rest after a long working year!

Somebody will get ahead with its job, it will work silently , consistently  to carry our grapes to ripening: it’s  Mother Nature.  

A cold and rainy winter delayed budburst and fruit set. Veraison has just started, a little bit late due to the long rainy and cool spring season which seemed not to give way to summer… Yet a hot and dry July helped to make up time, today grapes are sound and look to be ready for ripening: good weather in August and September is recommended! 

Thanks to the long rainy season soil is reach of water, however we will need to monitor our youngest vines whose roots could be too short to reach water in depth, we will assist them if needed.

Vines and grapes are healthy and we are used to say: “health is everything”….

Hence, we wish Mother Nature a good work….and you all a good vacation!