The 2018 vintage has been fascinating and challenging: the winter months were very cold, with minimum temperatures falling to -10.5 ° C.
It also snowed for a couple of days, thus making up a reusable water reserve from the plants on the hottest summer days. In spring there were constant rainfalls...
February was a very cold month all around Europe, and not even central-southern Italy was spared from very low temperatures. Snow arrived also in Fonterutoli, and even more unusual, in Belguardo in Maremma as well. Snow not only offers an enchanted landscape and the typical hushed silence, it is also...
On September 13, the harvest was completed in Belguardo, the Mazzei estate in Maremma.
After a poor in rain winter, and a mild spring but equally sprung of water, a hot, rather dry summer followed. However, the careful and prudent management of each vineyard has given optimum results for the health...
Thursday 28. September harvest 2017 in Fonterutoli is officially over.Harvest this year has gone beyond expectations. The summer was very dry with high temperatures, but the mid-September provisional rain, and the sudden decrease of both daytime and late-night temperatures, made the grapes on the branches...
by Mazzei
Published at 09 Oct 2017
The harvest in Fonterutoli ended officially the 11th October. It has been a long harvest, that begun the 31st august. Now the grapes are safe in the cellar, becoming wine.
The “authorized personnel” stopped to scan the sky and can finally sleep peacefully.
It was for sure a challenging...
by Mazzei
Published at 07 Nov 2016
Harvest has begun and we are very positive about it. We are going to keep you constantly informed, day by day, on our FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM pages, on how the harvest proceeds.
In the November newsletter, at the end of the harvest, and almost at the end of the vinification, we will we draw for you the...
by Mazzei
Published at 06 Sep 2016