San Leonardo’s Blog

We are bottling the San Leonardo 2006 which we will released on the market at the end of 2011 or most probably at the beginning of the 2012. We have started by filling up the Magnums and the half bottles in addition we have also bottled and the 3 liters or Double Magnums which are 300. The great novelty of this year is that we will make also 12 liter bottles ” Balthazar” only 5 of them  which will complete the range of the  large formats that we make since many years: the 9 liters ” Salmanazar” and the 6 liters ” Mathusalem”.

We will keep you updated on this vintage and as soon as we will open up the first bottles will post them first impressions on this wine. Now it is too early as wines like San leonardo need a long rest after the shock of the bottling. So stay tuned!

From today you will find us on foursquare.

This social network is brilliant and will significantly change the way we travel or meet friends outside.

Here you can find a beautiful presentation made by Howcast which as usual summarizes in a few funny drawings the concept of things.

So if you are traveling in Trentino you won’t miss us! Hope to see you soon in San Leonardo.

Here we are!

Over recent weeks, we have carried out numerous tests in the vineyard with a view to finding machinery that is suitable for working the under-vine soil without removing the weed control.

It is not easy to find specific machines that respect the various types of soil, and having tried a great number of every type, we opted for yet another unit from French manufacturer Boisselet. This “equipment-holder” – i.e. a machine that can use a plethora of different tools – has just about satisfied us. We think that the use of these “daisies” – as we call the rotors with numerous “petals” that till the earth – is not the ideal solution for our type of soil, because there are too many stones and so you run the risk of ending up with a vineyard that has nothing but pits, which is then nigh-on impossible to work with. The device you can see in the photos is a simple blade that cuts the surface of the plot, with the blade tilling the under-vine soil at a depth of just a few centimetres, chopping the roots and therefore drying out the field.

Of course, it is essential to find the right period, because if it rains the day after the work has been done, you’ve wasted your time…Let’s see if we can use it on all of our plots. We are studying the results very carefully in order to safeguard our vineyards – I’ll keep you posted on the choices we make.