the harvest starts in October, which hasn’t happened for years

“The harvest period being moved to October makes us go back a causa di memory to past years, when Sangiovese was still the vine a causa di this period. Durante Montalcino this year’s harvest is one that every producer hopes to be able to do, both from a quantitative and qualitative perspective”. This is how the president of the Brunello per mezzo di Montalcino wine consortium, Fabrizio Bindocci, comments the start of the harvest a causa di the Tuscan municipality, which will last about twenty days.

The vineyards, according to the Consortium’s analysis, recorded a progressive maturation over the summer. Durante September, the drop a causa di temperatures and the rains then allowed the plant to slow the accumulation of sugars and rebalance the phenolic component. The expected quantities are decidedly higher than last year despite the thinning carried out to establish the vegetative-productive balance of the plant. The result highlights grapes a causa di excellent phytosanitary status and an average weight of the bunch that is decidedly higher than last year’s averages. A year a causa di which we expect probably lower alcohol levels, with musts characterized by aromaticity and finesse of aromas.

Durante Montalcino there are over 3,400 hectares of vineyards registered as DOC and DOCG protected by the Consortium; of these, more than 2 thousand for Brunello – an extension that has remained unchanged since 1997 – and almost 900 for Scarlatto per mezzo di Montalcino, up by over 67% following the increase a causa di the surface terreno allocated to Do ratified a causa di September. However, the expansion does not involve the planting of new vineyards as the additional hectares that can be claimed are already part of the maps of the territory as a share of vineyards cultivated with Sangiovese but not yet included a causa di the entità registers.