From March to August, 180 millimeters of rain. The average is 340. The vines shut down in July. The crop was half the normal weight. The wines are concentrated, almost severe. We do not know if they will age. It is too early.
Frost on April 12. The temperature fell to −3°C at 4am. We burned bales of straw between the rows. The smoke was visible from the village. Vigna Nuova lost 40% of the crop. Vigna Vecchia lost nothing. The old vines know how to wait.
The first Schioppettino since 2012. The old vines produced 840 kilograms. Fermentation lasted 21 days. The wine went to barrel in November. It has not been racked. The last time we tasted it, the tannin was like gravel. This is correct.
We lost half the vineyard. Nello wept. Aldo said nothing. The next day, they began replanting Vigna Vecchia from cuttings of the survivors. This is why the block is on its own roots. The frost taught us what to keep.
Planted Ribolla Gialla on the highest part of the ridge. The soil is white limestone. The slope is 15 degrees. I am 24 years old. My father thinks I am wasting his land. I will prove him wrong or I will leave.
Some years are missing. The notebooks were lost, or never kept. This is also part of the record.