HARVEST DIARY 2022 | SAN POLO 7 6 HARVEST DIARY 2022 | SAN POLO Pre-harvest phase Thanks to the rains that characterized the end of summer 2022, which brought about 140mm in the space of a few weeks, the conditions in the vineyard changed suddenly: with great pleasure we witnessed a general recovery of the vigour of the bunches which, after months of hot and dry climatic conditions, they quickly swelled, returning to dimensions more suited to Sangiovese in this last phase of maturation. Precisely because of this new and much happier agronomic situation, we have decided to proceed with a second finishing step of the thinning. In the first step, done in midJuly, we had concentrated on arranging the bunches so that they were free and not “tangled”, but we had not unloaded the plants too much as the conditions were very hot and dry and, therefore, we would have caused more harm than good. In this second step, however, we return to the vineyard to thin out the points where the production load would be excessive: this is the ideal moment, the veraison phase is completely finished, from now on the plant can no longer grow the berries for cell multiplication and, therefore, we have no risk of breaking the berries on the bunches that remain after thinning.
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