Vermentino

After a fairly mild winter with little rainfall, spring started slowly, with slightly lower than average temperatures, which delayed vegetative regeneration. May throughout until mid-June extremely rainy. The season was characterized by heavy pressure from Peronospora, caused by weather conditions that also made it difficult to enter the field and work to protect the vines. Downy mildew damage with production losses in Tuscany averaging 30% (damage spread throughout Italy, France and Spain). A record heat in July, with temperatures exceeding 40°C, but thanks to vineyard operations we were able to protect the clusters from the high temperatures, and the vineyards did not suffer from drought. The entire harvest period with no rain and very high temperatures, even above 25°C throughout October. In this vintage we have wines with medium structure and good flavour profiles. Good quality of tannins, although full phenolic maturity was not achieved in all vineyards.