Aldo’s Vineyard Update – Green Harvest 2010

Eighty-two degrees and rain in Barbaresco today. Aldo Vacca just sent us our latest vineyard report. The “green harvest” is now complete (thinning the vines of fruit, for the benefit of remaining grapes). We’re glad it looks like summer–somewhere…

Aldo Vacca’s Vineyard Update – Fruit Set 2010

Since January, Aldo Vacca of Produttori del Barbaresco has been periodically visiting his vineyard with a video camera & recording what’s going on there. We saw the vines’ first pruning, and then bud break in April. And finally this week, we get…

Aldo Vacca’s Vineyard Update – Bud Break 2010

After a late spring finally arrives…

Aldo Vacca’s Vineyard Update – Winter 2010

Our friend Aldo Vacca, of Produttori del Barbaresco, has been taking video from the vineyard and sending them to us. Here’s the first glimpse we get of what will grow to be picked, pressed, and bottled for 2010….