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The course of the seasons

Spring.
On the Tuscan coast nature reawakens early. It is already warmer in the second half of March, and the almond trees are the first to fill with blossom.
Summer.
The vine flowers (not all of them, it depends on the way the season is going) give birth to the first ...
Autumn.
The winemaker reads the signs of the weather to understand how he will have to carry out his work.
Winter.
In winter on the Tuscan coast, when the weather is good, the light is always intense and the climate mild and pleasant.

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Vineyard work.
The management of a high quality vineyard is not a matter of improvisation.

It needs great experience, wide knowledge, passion in following a tiring job at the whim of the weather, and many years of patience.

A certain amount of “savoir faire” on top of this comes from belonging,as we do, to a family of winemakers going back through the generations, where particular ways of doing and thinking are breathed in since childhood.
The man alone is not enough, however.

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Cellar work

They say that the transformation of must into wine is a natural process, as it comes about due to micro-organisms that are present in nature.

This shouldn’t make you think that must will spontaneously transform itself into a great wine, however.

The process is in fact very complicated, and so if it does not come about in the best conditions and with the use of good sense at the right moment, then it can easily “take a wrong turning”, leading to uninteresting products, but also...

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GUADO AL MELO

Località Murrotto, 130/A
57022 Castagneto Carducci (LI)
TUSCANY - ITALY

 

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STORIES OF PLACES AND PEOPLE
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Our wines
  Bacco in Toscana
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  Jassarte
  Antillo
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  airone
Grappa Bolgheri
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Drink little to drink well
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
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  Fermentation
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  Malo-lactic fermentation
  Barriccaia
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  White wine