HARVEST DIARY 2022 | SAN POLO 17 16 HARVEST DIARY 2022 | SAN POLO The selection of the buds takes place in mid-May, an important moment for the process in the vineyard, which requires particular attention in identifying badly positioned buds. In fact, not all shoots are positive for the plant, because sometimes their nourishment subtracts useful energy to be channeled into the foliar or reproductive system. We want to carry out this operation meticulously and, precisely for this reason, we carry out two steps: the first at the beginning of the season, so as not to waste energy on the plant and, the second, after about a month. This year, in particular, due to a cool season with little The selection of sprouts sunshine, the shoots have delayed their growth, leading us to wait for temperatures to rise, adapting to the seasonal trend. In fact, if we had performed this operation earlier, in all probability it would not have brought the results we hoped to achieve. Here at San Polo we always listen to nature, because getting in tune with what surrounds us is the only way to fully understand its essence. Warm but breezy days and cool nights. At the end of May 2022 flowering began in San Polo, the period of the year in which the inebriating scent of the vine is in the air as it prepares to express all its scents. A real visual and olfactory show but with a fleeting nature, because it is destined to last just over a week. This year’s flowering enjoyed an ideal climate, giving us particularly luxuriant and verdant vegetation, with very good growth of the shoots in relation to the stage of development in which the plant is found. With the persistence of warm and dry conditions we expect that, gradually, growth has started to slow down in relation to water availability. Should some rain arrive in the coming weeks, the conditions would become truly ideal for an excellent continuation of the season. Just these days, in San Polo, the beauty of the colors of the vine is combined with the purple of the Phacelia flowers, a plant belonging to the brassicaceae family, which we use in the green manure of our vineyards to decompact the soil thanks to its taproots, or roots which grow vertically downwards. Spring flowering
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