In this vintage year we registered a net positive result for quality.
A slight delay in the germination combined with earlier subsequent phenolical phases brought us to the harvest a few days earlier than last year.
If the anomolous heat during some of June and especially August favored maturation, the frequent rain created significant concern for defense against blight, which was rarely so aggressive and insidious in the past.
Harvesting began on September 8 with the Brachetto, Pinot Nero, Moscato, Grignolino and so on to the Barbera, ending the last week of October with the Barbera grapes destined for Ai Suma.