{"id":1622,"date":"2022-03-26T07:54:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T06:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podereforte.it\/?page_id=1622"},"modified":"2022-03-26T07:54:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T06:54:21","slug":"2015-vintage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/2015-vintage\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 VINTAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1606302399744{margin-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; el_width=&#8221;40&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#bd955a&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1606302392546{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 55px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"> Sweet concentration.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The year was beautiful and focussed on sweetness.<\/p>\n<p>Winter was well-behaved until early January, when the temperatures dropped to -5\u02da. The year progressed reassuringly. Spring brought rain, which lasted until the beginning of summer and flowering started on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> May.<\/p>\n<p>Nature changes every year, each one bringing its own colours and personality. This year is remembered for its concentrated sweetness. The summer was perfect, hot and dry until the end of July; the vines were healthy and the grapes developed well. August became gradually cooler, delivering rain that relieved the summer stress on the vines.<\/p>\n<p>September brought its usual temperature variations, with top temperatures of 30\u02da and a\u00a0 nightly average of 15\u02da, and a pleasant wind.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first year we made Petrucci, using Sangiovese from the Anfiteatro [Amphitheatre] and Melo vineyards, where the harvest started on 27<sup>th<\/sup> and 30<sup>th<\/sup> September respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The season can be summed up thus: \u201cWine is already concentrated in the grapes, it\u2019s up to us to transform it with care right through to the delight of the final pouring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We leave you with the thought of Pliny the Elder, born in Como in 23 BCE, naturalist, military commander and provincial governor of the Roman Empire: \u201cThe two liquids that are best for the human body are wine inside and oil outside\u201d.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1606302399744{margin-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; el_width=&#8221;40&#8243; accent_color=&#8221;#bd955a&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1606302392546{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 55px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text] Sweet concentration. The year was beautiful and focussed on sweetness. Winter was well-behaved until early January, when the temperatures dropped to -5\u02da. The year progressed reassuringly. Spring brought rain, which lasted until the beginning of summer and flowering started on 23rd May. Nature&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1622\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}