Oltretorrente 2021 Harvest Report

Hello everybody,

The holidays were fine, but we had to come back home to be ready for harvest. Many wild animals are helping us to be faster this year (Esopo was not wrong...You too!! Pic1), maybe we should just find a way to give them water and save grapes...

It was a very dry summer, so roe deers, wild boars (and foxes?!) are eating more grapes than usual to rehydrate. But that's not the worst grape damage we had (not yet): there was a hailstorm in late-July and a very hot week in August. The result of these climatic factors in some vineyards (especially barbera suffers a lot from high temperatures) would be a depressing picture, so I'll send you a funnier and interesting one about timorasso instead (Pic2).

If you look carefully into it, you'll notice that the vine on the left has not a single bunch, while the vine on the right has probably produced 15 kg of grapes (but obviously we had to cut off much of it). What a crazy, unpredictable variety it is!

Next Thursday, on our daughter Carlotta's birthday, we'll start picking up some barbera, then we'll stop for a birthday party and then there will probably be no rest: grape samples and damage evolution will guide us through the harvest map.

Let's get ready, then! (Pic3) Maybe cellophane should go on the camping van now...

Timorasso 2019 is sold out, let's talk about Timorasso 2020 then!

Thanks a lot for all your support,

ciao

Chiara and Michele