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April: news from the Vineyards

posted on 4 May 2016
Just two pieces of news about the start of the season...
  1. Field and seasonal trend + organic
After a particularly beautiful and sunny winter, spring broke out with a rapidity that left us not a little surprised. With unusual anticipation, the vines started up again for the new season with unexpected strength thanks to almost summer-like temperatures, and we are now about two weeks ahead of a normal vegetative cycle. At first glance, we seem to be witnessing good, regular budding, with the fruit set expected to be far too abundant for now, but as we know, the season is still long... In the meantime, our path towards organic production continues, and from this year we are trying mechanical tillage of the under-row. We have put an old tool that had lain forgotten for years back in the field, and although this implies a greater burden of work, we think it will certainly benefit the vines.
  1. Bottling
We will soon bottle the Valtènesi 2015, our Groppello 100%, and let's face it, 2015 was indeed a very good year for this wine in particular, to which we are affectionately attached. For the first time, in fact, we are able to bottle wine from Groppello grapes grown entirely by us in the vineyard we rented last year and in the new vineyard planted in 2013, and we are convinced that this can be felt in the glass. In July it will be the turn of the Rinè 2015, now a constant in terms of product quality and identity, and the Nepomuk 2012 with which we are continuing on our path towards an increasingly austere and integral wine, perhaps little prone to market “mushyness”.
  1. Information on opening the cellar to the public and appointment notice
We would like to remind you that for those wishing to taste the products in the cellar or make purchases, it is always best to give notice of your arrival by phone or e-mail. Saturday is the day we devote the most time to these meetings, but it is always better to let us know.  
  1. Upcoming events
Italia in rosa, from 10 to 12 June from 17:00 to 23:00 at the Moniga del Garda Castle, where it will be possible to taste the Rosanoire 2015. Cristina and Diego

Epiphany 2018

posted on 8 January 2018
With best wishes for a happy start to the new year to you all, the Epiphany Befana has delivered some lovely gifts to Cantrina… One of them is big news! Vinitaly 2018: After years of participating in Dusseldorf’s Prowein wine fair, in which we gained invaluable contacts, we decided to alter course and return to Vinitaly in 2018, set to run 15-8 April of this year, in Verona as always. You will find us at our own stand inside the FIVI group space.

The wine-grower’s post-harvest wrap-up

posted on 16 November 2017
Manufacturer's Considerations
Now that the fermentations are nearly finished, it’s time for our usual overview with respect to the 2017 harvest—or perhaps better, the 2017 vintage year. As expected, the extremely hot weather and lack of rainfall—some 60% less than normal– that marked the entire season brought the harvest forward by two full weeks, which meant that on 18 August the first pinot noir clusters for Rosanoire were already in the cellar, and the white grapes came in just one week later.

Summer 2017 – Waiting for the harvest

posted on 7 August 2017
Well, we are almost there… After a very challenging season that spared us absolutely nothing, in terms of strange weather, we are just about to harvest the earliest-ripening grapes. Following a dry, but finally cold winter, an early, warm spring exploded on us in March, only to be abruptly interrupted on April 19 by a freeze that cost us about 30% of our crop… The season then continued, but without much rainfall, but with periods on increasing heat, particularly from June on. These were fortunately punctuated by a few rainstorms, which somewhat alleviated the drought that largely characterised this growing season.
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