Wine stories

12.03.2024

Pruning work has begun

March 2024

Pruning work has begun, this activity has been postponed compared to the usual period to reduce the possible risk of frost that can happen now and then during this period.

 

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12.03.2024

Green manure situation in early March

At San Polo our green manures have grown very flourishingly, thanks to the high temperatures and abundant rainfall. Lush green manures like the ones we have contribute to the formation and stabilization of organic substances and decompact the soil, making it healthier and increasing the resilience of the vineyards to climate change.

 

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17.02.2024

Flowering of the green manure and buds on the swollen shoots

If the weather stays this “spring-like,” we probably won't start pruning until the first week of March

 

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18.01.2024

The vineyard is alive!

Restoration of plants in the vineyard

It is part of the normal life of a vineyard: now and then, especially as the years go by, even the vines can die. It happens for many reasons: diseases or parasites that take over, cold spells, or simply due to the end of the life cycle. Then, we remove the dead vines and in their place, we plant new cuttings, the small vines.

 

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18.11.2023

Vignavecchia, Brunello di Montalcino 2018 has been included inside the 100 best wines SELECTED by LUCIANO FERRARO E JAMES SUCKLING

Precisely during these days of celebration in Montalcino, for the annual "Benvenuto Brunello" event, San Polo is filled with honor...

 

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14.11.2023

Our San Polo 2020 Rosso di Montalcino has been chosen as a Wine Spectator Top 100 Wine of 2023 – rank # 72.

The Rosso di Montalcino 2020 was included in Wine Spectator's TOP 100 list, Bruce Sandeson describes it like this...

 

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08.03.2023

How to prevent the "tignoletta"

he capsule that we are going to put in the vineyard to avoid the presence of the "tignoletta" is an important activity to preserve the health of the bunch. When the fruit is attacked by tignoletta, the berries still on the plant are brown and dried. It is therefore essential to intervene in time

 

 

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20.02.2023

Winter Pruning

The winter pruning starts a new production cycle. With pruning, the productive part of the plant is renewed, a new branch is selected, that will give rise to new shoots and consequently to the bunches.

 

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24.01.2023

Snow in San Polo

Some images of our cellar whitened by the snow of January 2023

 

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23.10.2022

Amphora Vignamasso

Amphora Vignamasso, le vin qui incarne l'esprit visionnaire de la tradition fait ses débuts.

San Polo devient un laboratoire d'idées, redécouvrant et innovant la vinification des amphores. Pour exprimer au mieux les caractéristiques variétales les plus authentiques du Sangiovese.

 

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23.10.2022

Amphora Vignamasso

Debut of the wine that embodies the visionary spirit of tradition: San Polo has become a laboratory of ideas...

 

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16.10.2022

Let's start from the soil

Once the harvest is over, there are numerous activities that need to be conducted on the field for the good maintenance of the vineyard...

 

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16.10.2022

Redémarrage à partir de la terre

A la campagne, une fois les vendanges terminées, il y a de nombreuses activités à réaliser pour le bon entretien du vignoble...

 

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04.10.2022

2022 Harvest

This harvest is drawing to a close and, with winemaking proceeding in the cellar, we are beginning to make an initial assessment of this 2022 vintage...

 

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04.09.2022

Récolte 2022

Cette récolte touche également à sa fin, et avec la vinification en cours en cave, nous commençons à faire le point sur ce millésime 2022...

 

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29.08.2022

Vineyard news

New updates from the vineyard. This year we decided to slightly anticipate the pre-harvest peeling...

 

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29.08.2022

Nouvelles du vignoble

Nouvelles mises à jour du vignoble. Cette année, nous avons décidé d'anticiper légèrement l'effeuillage pré-récolte, une activité importante avec...

 

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24.08.2022

Almost ready!

Here at San Polo the season continues and we are approaching the final stage of the grapes ripening, the most important for a late variety such as Sangiovese.

Thanks to the recent abundant rains...

 

 

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24.08.2022

Nous y sommes presque!

Ici, à San Polo, la saison se poursuit et nous approchons de la dernière phase de maturation du raisin, la plus importante pour un cépage tardif comme le Sangiovese...

 

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17.07.2022

Vineyard update

During the summer season, it is very important to take care of the vines maintenance, arranging the clusters and slightly thinning, where necessary...

 

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17.07.2022

Nouvelles du vignoble

Pendant la saison estivale, il est très important de s'occuper de l'entretien des plantes, en arrangeant les grappes et en les éclaircissant légèrement si nécessaire...

 

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21.06.2022

Leaves removal

In San Polo we started to remove some leaves from the vines. In the wall facing east or north...

 

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21.06.2022

Floconnage

L'effeuillage a commencé à San Polo. Sur le mur orienté à l'est ou au nord, selon l'orientation des rangs, on enlève les feuilles basales, positionnées sous...

 

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06.06.2022

Vines growing

In San Polo the flowering season proceeds swiftly, continuing to enchant with its beautiful colors, thanks to...

 

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06.06.2022

Positionnement des pousses

À San Polo, la floraison se poursuit et continue d'enchanter par ses belles couleurs, grâce à la lumière du beau temps qui illumine les..

 

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26.05.2022

It's flowering time!

Warm but breezy days and cool nights. Flowering has begun in San Polo...

 

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10.05.2022

Sprouts selection

The selection of the sprout is an important moment for the vineyard process, a phase that requires particular attention...

 

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28.03.2022

Green manure flowering

The spring atmosphere of these days is colored by the blooming of the green manures in the vineyard...

 

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16.02.2022

Late pruning

Pruning ... a delicate and fundamental activity, almost holy. A really important moment for the vine, fundamental help for the correct growth of future shoots.

 

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09.02.2022

The importance of stones

February comes… a month of apparent calm in which we carry out small but fundamental activities to...

 

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19.01.2022

It's late January ... time for tastings in the cellar of the future 2019 Brunellos that are...

 

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12.11.2021

2017 vintage first ratings

Brunello 2017, the first #BIO certified vintage of San Polo, 2017, according to @james.suckling. Acknowledgments that...

 

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19.10.2021

Today we begin the first racking off at San Polo winery: starting with...

 

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05.10.2021

Green manure

At the end of September and after the harvest ... it is time for the soil to rest. As sustainability supporters and...

 

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30.09.2021

2021 Harvest

2021 will be remembered as a year of character, dynamic, unpredictable. It began with a...

 

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16.09.2021

Almost there!

Nature offers us clear signals that indicate grapes state of ripeness...

 

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08.09.2021

Small berries, thick skin

This year grapes selected for our Brunello...

 

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24.08.2021

Rains, precious gift

We waited and hoped for it and finally, after a few weeks of high temperatures...

 

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16.08.2021

New vines growing

The new vines are growing very well and, in this period..

 

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29.07.2021

Veraison at San Polo

In today's inspection, we found the first grapes that have...

 

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20.07.2021

Gold Medal for Rubio 2019!

We are proud to share with you the latest results achieved by San Polo wines at Decanter Wine World Awards 2021...

 

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15.07.2021

Today we begin the last work on the canopy, to create the best conditions for...

 

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25.06.2021

Upper-canopy bundling

We have begun the upper-canopy bundling, an agronomic practice which involves...

 

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21.06.2021

First leaves peeling

Today it’s time for the first phase of defoliation. The current phenological phase is referred to as...

 

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03.06.2021

It’s flowering time!

Flowering has begun in the vineyards of San Polo. An unassuming but very important phase in the phenological cycle of the vine...

 

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31.05.2021

Working on the canopy

It is also essential to take care of the wall of leaves and today our focus is working on the canopy. We begin with...

 

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27.05.2021

Tilling between the rows

We have finished working the soil below each row in the vineyards (with vines that are producing grapes) and today we will begin to work on the surface of the soil ...

 

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11.05.2021

Selecting the vine shoots

Today we will select the shoots, a few weeks later than it was usually done in the past ...

 

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07.05.2021

Budding of the vine shoots

The Moscato vines are budding fast! As an early season variety it is indeed very sensitive to rising temperatures ...

 

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04.05.2021

Bottling Day!

Bottling the wine is a very delicate phase of our work and is the culmination of all of our efforts in the vineyard and cellar ...

 

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29.04.2021

Homeopathic approach

From this year onward we are also integrating a vision based on HOMEOPATHY. In fact, we are carrying out some tests ...

 

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21.04.2021

Planting Moscato Bianco rootstock

We are planting the Moscato Bianco rootstock in our new vineyard.
A few days ago ...

 

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20.04.2021

Partitioning a new vineyard

Today we are moving forward with partitioning the plots we will plant in the coming days ...

 

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19.04.2021

Ageing in amphora

In the meantime, the experimental ageing of Sangiovese in amphora continues ...

 

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10.03.2021

Second phase of work in the vineyard

Every day, we carefully observe as the preparatory work for the new vineyard continues. We note its changes and try to understand and anticipate the care it will require.

 

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18.02.2021

Vineyard maintenance

This is the time of year in which we patiently wait for the vine’s sap to resume, and in the meantime we focus on the everyday maintenance of the vineyards.

 

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05.01.2021

Dry pruning

It is time for dry pruning, one of the main tasks in the vineyard during the winter months and fundamental to vineyard management.

 

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29.10.2020

Planting cover crops

We have been looking forward to this day with great enthusiasm. The team is still exhausted from the harvest but today they are ready for another important component of vineyard care: cover crops.

 

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19.10.2020

Deep tillage of the new vineyard

We move forward with our work on the new vineyard’s soil. Now is the time to proceed with more profound tillage after the ploughing in October.

 

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19.10.2020

Ploughing the soil for a new vineyard

The harvest was completed only a few days ago, and we are already enthusiastically returning to work for another important project: uprooting an old vineyard and preparing the ground for a new one ...

 

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