Annamaria Clementi

Winter with frequent snowfalls, but rather mild. Rainy and very cold spring. First phases of the vine cycle marked by these meteorological obstacles: late bud break and fertility of reduced buds. Flowering took place in early June, always accompanied by unfavorable weather conditions. From mid-April to the second decade of June it rained every 2 days, but with the arrival of summer the weather has changed radically and we have moved on to the excesses of weather in recent years, with highs that have touched 40 ° C. With fairly regular intervals storms have arrived to quench the vines’ thirst. When the grapes were ready for harvest, later Mid-August, abundant rain heavily marked the vintage. After so many years we have revised the gray mold which made it necessary to sort the grapes both in the countryside and in the basement. Never as this year has our grape sorting and washing plant been crucial for changing the face of this apparently difficult vintage, but made valuable by us.