When wine is wine, it lasts in time. You open the bottle, taste it, drink a glass, pick up the phone, eat something, drink another glass, you go out with a friend. You drink something else, and you forget you have an opened bottle in the fridge. You have guests, they get you another wine […]
And now we are in 2020, even number, repetitive; it could be a 20 +20 or twice a 20, it surely will be the next year that will see us as leading characters for a productive society. And we should consider this as soon as possible, since society waits for no one and few have […]
My best wishes for Christmas Best wishes! May Christmas bring harmony, peace and serenity in your home! The best things in life are not found underneath a tree, but inside the people beside you during the special moments. Merry Christmas. I hug you, and I wish you to find a lot of joy, happiness and […]
Harvest 2019 That strange rendez-vous, every year, not at the same time, not the same day. But you know it’ll happen. You think about it for one year, but you don’t know how long it will last and what it’s going to give you. The appointment this year started on the 12th of August, delayed […]
Let us not be deceived by the appearances. These are two different superimposed shots of the same dawn and therefore this means that sometimes it depends on you what you want to see or what you are willing to see. There are no appearances, there is your interpretation of reality and this is because the […]
Today is the EARTH DAY, the greatest environmental demonstration, and we re-post our 29th of March 2019 blog . We talk a lot about climate, but who really cares? ”I thought that when I grow old I want to look back at my past and say: I did what I could for climate at that […]
The importance of having a ‘new’ official website And the importance of having an online brochure, to provide all the info and share the Company philosohy and how we deal with the vast world of wine, sometimes chaothic. The origins, the history, the philosophy, whre we are, how we make wine and above all the […]
An eye on the consumer There are two different macro-categories of wine consumers: the ones who knows, and the ones who relies on others. Nevertheless, we must pay attention not to address anyone into these two categories, since everyone feels like be-longing to the other type.The wise ones are sometimes knowledgeable, while some other times […]
A few hectares more means quality Some years ago, twenty-five to be precise, a famous and above all good person, Giacomo Tachis, revealed me a secret saying that it would not be a drama if we bought grapes from other areas because maybe they were better than ours that vintage. (I never did, anyway). A […]
Technically speaking the sicilian name is ”pruvulazzo” or ”polvere” (dust) in italian, and the tool we use it’s called ”cuteddazzu” in dialect, translated as cutlass in english, since it’s made out big blades going 10/15 cm deep in the land and they raise the dust. Ancestors said that stabbing the land creates a patina on […]