The key points of our work:
– The vineyards are located in the most suitable positions. If wine is territory, great grapes must come from great territories. For us this is an essential starting point: it is useless to practice organic or biodynamic farming in vineyards located in unsuitable areas (because they are too humid, with the wrong soil, poor exposures). Starting from a suitable position, work in the vineyard functions well with few interventions: the plant regulates itself, treatments are less frequent and invasive, the fruit ripens even in the most difficult years.
– Almost all the vineyards are located near woods, a very important aspect for promoting biodiversity.
– The vineyards are derived from massal selections; we like to keep the old clones that were born and acclimatized in these lands.
– To revitalize the soil we use autumn green manure (red clover, for the most part) and under-vine movement to ventilate and consequently recreate conditions favourable to microbiological life.
– Our vine-growing system is the traditional “cappuccina”, very popular in this area for grape varieties such as Friulano and the vigorously growing Picolit, and guyot for Refosco and Schioppettino.
An agronomist assists us offering advice and technical explanations but it is the daily contact with the vineyards that gives us the measure of everything: we have learned over the years to understand the land, which ones are weeds and which ones are useful, a shift of clouds that forebodes rain.