San Leonardo’s Blog

We have started harvesting!

After a serious evaluation by our director Luigino Tinelli and our Enologue Carlo Ferrini, my father has decided to start picking the grapes.

Infact this year due to the last rains and to the heat we have decided that it was time to crop our fields as some berries were starting to show that it was the right time.

Merlot has been the first variety to be picked, for now sugar content of the grapes are not very high, but this for us has never been a true signal of quality, color, on the other side, is beautiful and brilliant and this is always a good quality meter, quantities are quite poor this year and on some fields we have found up to 15 % less fruit resepct to the past year while acidities are at a good stadium.

In the cellar fermentations have started well and the gorgeous perfumes of the new wines are filtrating even in the offices from which I am writing to you.

Here below I have selected a few pictures from the decision of when to start the harvest made by Carlo Ferrini, you can see him with my father tasting the grapes, to the picking, to the selection of the grapes, till the fermentations in the ancient cement vats. In these days I will as well post some videos of our cellar life. Stay tuned.