Oltretorrente Seasonal Update 2021

Hello to everybody!

I hope you are all doing well.

After a rainy autumn, winter temperatures have arrived and the weather forecast says that it will snow on Wednesday.

The day before botting, exactly as it did last year. So we are planning how to shovel snow in time to let the bottling machine arrive in the cellar.

Maybe it will have to arrive by sleigh like Santa Claus!

Cellar has been uppermost in our thoughts of the last months (but we have also had some satisfaction coming from the vineyards covered by sprouted field bean, pic1)

We have removed skins from the wines, joined tanks, labelled bottles with grapes boxes drying after the end-of-harvest washing, occupying half of the cellar.

Then we had to move back the second lot of Rosso 2020 and Barbera Superiore 2019 (pic 2, sorry but Michele couldn't smile on that day!) from the small cellar in the city to the "big" one for the new bottling, after less than 3 months...

We don't want to do all this useless, tiring, endless "moving things" anymore, we are both older than forty (!!) now. Before the next harvest we will definitely have to enlarge the cellar by using the courtyard which is just in front of the entrance.

A grant would help, but if we won't receive any, in the first year we will only do the floor.

A real step by step operation, as usual.

We haven't had the thrill of spending a lot of money for about 3 years now, and maybe we could get too relaxed, so let's start again!

The very happy thing is that you are all still there and that we can even meet now (pic3, from Mercato dei Vini a Piacenza, which year after year is becoming a real international wine fair)! We will not attend Vinitaly in 2022 for several reasons, but I hope there will be many other opportunities to meet.

We will be here, for instance: https://slowinefair.slowfood.it/en/

The rest of the time, you'll find us in Paderna.

Cheers,
Chiara and Michele