THE VINEYARD - LA VIGNA


The cultivation of the grape and the work in the vineyard are the most important elements in the natural winemaking process. This is where everything is born, and where it all transforms.

Our scope is to enrich the humus and improve the reception of the plants and the soil of the vital cosmic energy. It is our aim to bring healthy grapes into the cellar at the end of the harvest, the hardest work has been completed. From this stage onwards, the grapes take on the work. During the harvest weeks and thereafter, there are three important choices to be made: 1-The moment when to harvest the grapes. 2-the decision and length of time to macerate the wine using skin contact. 3-The choice of which container to keep the wine in. All these components are forms of exploration and play, and we keep on finding ways in which to continue this conversation with the wine. In our cellar, we experiment with terracotta amphoras, but also in modern steel containers. For the aging of the wine we have selected different woods to bring out the flavours of the red wine. We add only a minimum dose of sulfites to avoid oxidation, deterioration from unwanted bacteria, and to help in the ageing process. And we are learning how to create a controlled oxidation during the fermentation process, so that the wine has a long life and can travel easily to your home.

Drinking a natural wine is a conversation. It communicates, speaks, converses. The language is determined by its organoleptic characteristics, its personality, its authenticity, its vitality, for the stimuli it gives, and how it descends down the throat and interacts with our organism inside. We want our wine to have a character that is good company. It is vital for us the pleasure it gives, the trust it transmits, and how it makes an impression on you.

An authentic wine is not a stable product, but it is alive going through different phases of its life. Many say that natural wines are ‘impegniativo’. Meaning that they are challenging, or require too much attention when drank. But lets look at it from another perspective. It is a character that is alive, which we have the pleasure to sit with at the table, to meet and get to know.