What can we expect by 2021 vintage in Chianti Classico(today)? The spring rains allowed for a good vegetative development and provided sufficient water reserves. The only phenomenon was the slight discrepancy in the growth times of the shoots in spring, due to lower average temperatures, which temporarily stopped the vegetative development in some areas. The frost…

A walk among the rows of vines - we are in the Bellezza vineyard - the veraison of the grapes has begun. The heat of the last few weeks resulted in the grapes veraison about a week earlier than the average in recent years, but the conditions of the grapes are very good. It is the…

2008 Marc Reist Art exhibition at Castello di Gabbiano[/caption犀利士 ] From September 2nd to November 7th 2021 Castello di Gabbiano hosts the Contemporary Art exhibition by the Swiss artist Marc Reist. A retrospective of the works - sculptures and paintings - realized by the artist in the span of time since his previous exhibition at the…

uve sangiovese parzialmente bruciate For those interested in the world of viticulture, a walk through the Sangiovese grapes vineyards today can be very instructive. It is clear where and why the grapes have suffered and, where and why the grapes have held up well these very hot and dry weeks. Younger vineyards whose vines have shallower roots…

Continuing our updates on everything that happens at Castello di Gabbiano in this intense harvest period : in the vineyard, in the cellar, in the barrel room,... today we go to the vinsantaia - the room dedicated to the production of Vinsanto. The Trebbiano and Malvasia grapes have been harvested in September and are withering, hung…

(…read here previous episodes)  Harvest is still on: we harvested about 5,000 quintals of grapes over 100 hectares - low yields (less than 45 quintals/hectare) our FORECAST is confirmed. There are approximately 50 hectares of Sangiovese, Cabernet and Petit Verdot still to pick. We started to harvest the best Sangiovese grapes for our  Riserva Chianti Classico:  great…

(…read here previous episodes)  The harvest keeps, the Sangiovese grapes that have already reached their full ripeness arrive in the cellar and undertake their transformation process. Most of these sangiovese grapes will perform the alcoholic fermentation in small stainless steel - only for some of these grapes our choice falls on the wooden fermentation. In…

(…read here previous episodes)  Our harvest is ended, all grapes are in the cellar.  This year the harvest was a little earlier in the younger vineyards that had suffered a little from the high temperatures and water stress during the month of August. But in the end we accelerated it a bit, due to the…