Oliveto Wine Journal
It is hard to guess at the time of harvest how a vintage will eventually turn out. Only after malalactic fermentation has happened, some time in the spring of 2011, will there be a clear sense of the qualities of that year’s fruit.
But, here are Aldo’s best guesses:
The 2010 Barbaresco should make good, not great [...]
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Aldo’s latest dispatch, live from the vineyard. Gearing up for harvest… |
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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… |
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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… |
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After a late spring finally arrives… |
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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…. |
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