GD Vajra - Langhe Nebbiolo 2023

GD Vajra - Langhe Nebbiolo 2023In 1971 Aldo Vaira joined Suolo e Salute, becoming a pioneer of organic farming in Piedmont while working the family land. The 1972 vintage was harsh. Facing the very real possibility of leaving the bunches on the vine, Aldo did not give up and vinified his first vintage. The energy of this beginning is collected in the note that is still written on the first page of the Marescalchi, the university enology manual: imagination at work. This imagination

Basilisco has 20 hectares under vine

The business was sold in 2019

the island could harvest phylloxera-free baby vines

which with its warm dry summers and mild wet winters is Canada’s only maritime influenced Mediterranean grape growing region

Domprobst is more mineral

From low yielding bushvines of the early 1960s to more recent plantings

Their whites are crisp

The attention paid in the vineyard to growing grapes that are best suited to the cool climate site and specific terroir of Naramata is followed by wine-making practices rooted in minimal intervention

All of the grapes are foot trodden in granite lagares situated on the property

Wine making is done through limited intervention

Tenuta Lena di Mezzo

acquired a small winery closer to the centre of Jerez de la Frontera and moved there all the preexisting soleras