6 novembre 2020
2020 Harvest: sangiovese racking in the cellar
2020 harvest: in the cellar the punching down and the first racking of the Sangiovese are in progress. In the next appointments
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18 octobre 2020
2020 Harvest: the winemaker’s words
(…read here previous episodes) It is always the very last weeks of the grapes ripening season to determine the final quality of the vintage. The 2020 vintage was not easy from a qualitative point of view although the conditions were excellent up to 3 weeks before harvest. With the late September and early October rains, everything got complicated. Having a large extension of vineyards, every year we find different expressions in our SANGIOVESE vineyards: this year more than ever the location
11 octobre 2020
2020 Harvest: updating from the cellar
(…read here previous episodes) The harvest keeps, the Sangiovese grapes that have already reached their full ripeness arrive in the cellar and undertake their transformation process. Most of these sangiovese grapes will perform the alcoholic fermentation in small stainless steel - only for some of these grapes our choice falls on the wooden fermentation. In this case we use so-called "exhausted" barriques, of third or fourth passage.
5 octobre 2020
2020 Harvest: the Vinsanto
Continuing our updates on everything that happens at Castello di Gabbiano in this intense harvest period : in the vineyard, in the cellar, in the barrel room,
1 octobre 2020
Harvest 2020: harvest by machine?
Here we are again reporting what happens at Castello di Gabbiano during this intense harvest period, in the vineyard, in the cellar, in the barrel room
28 septembre 2020
2020 Harvest: intense time
(see previous news: here) In the vineyards harvest is on work in fits and starts because of the frequent sudden rains - we are comfortable as the most delicate grapes have already been picked and those still on the plants are healthy. In the cellar the fermentations have started - proceeding under the watchful eye of the oenologists. Meanwhile, in the aging cellar our cellar-men are working with the receipt of the new woods for the new vintage. The new French