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Bottling: after being refined in wood for anything between 8 and 24 months according to type, the wine is blended and bottled.

It will be laid down in the bottle for several months in the best conditions, in order for further refinement to take place.

Only after 6 to 9 months will the bottle be taken, cleaned, labelled, capsuled and packaged. Then begins its trip around the world, where it may remain for years and years in the cellars of connoisseurs.

The bottle will be the home of the wine for several years more, then. For this reason it is necessary to have raw materials of high quality in order to guarantee conservation. The bottle is the “clothing” of the wine; its form and colour, the weight, the label, the capsule … all of these contribute to the image of a wine even before it is tasted.

It is above all the stopper that has the greatest importance regarding the ability to keep a wine, however. We have chosen to remain within tradition, with stoppers made of cork, a material that has always guaranteed the best conditions for keeping wine, as well as great elegance.

The important thing is not to skimp on the quality of the cork; only in this way can we be sure that it won’t betray our trust.

 


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STORIES OFWORK AND SEASONS
The course of the seasons
  Spring
  Summer
  Autumn
  Winter
Vineyard work
  Vineyard management philosophy
  Layout of the vineyard
  The viticultural system
  Grassing in
  Pruning
  Protection of the vines
  Palisading
  Polling and removing leaves
  Thinning out
  Production yield
  The vintage
Cellar work
  Winemaking cellar philosophy
  Fermentation
  Maceration
  Coadjuvants and other substances
  Malo-lactic fermentation
  Barriccaia
  Refinement in wood
  Fine lees
  Topping up
  Decantation
  Blending
  Bottling
  White wine