{"id":1625,"date":"2022-03-26T07:55:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T06:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podereforte.it\/?page_id=1625"},"modified":"2022-03-26T07:55:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T06:55:48","slug":"2018-vintage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/2018-vintage\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 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;\"> Inebriating scent.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aroma is one element of wine\u2019s identity and an expert can recognise a wine by its nose. In this vintage, the aroma was inebriating.<\/p>\n<p>Winter was gentle, mild and calm. The temperature was above average going into spring and bud-burst was earlier than normal. March and April remained warmer than average and the buds developed quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The necessary rain arrived in good time and in good quantity. May and June were wet and replenished the ground water, providing coolness for the coming heat. Summer arrived a little before its solstice, the temperature rising slowly, never going above 32\u02da and remaining warm until the end of the season. There was some summer rain and the evening breeze kept the nights cool.<\/p>\n<p>Flowering began on 4<sup>th<\/sup> June and veraison in the third week of July, finishing on 16<sup>th<\/sup> August in the Melo vineyard and 2<sup>nd<\/sup> September in the Anfiteatro. Harvest started in mid-September and finished on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> October in the Angfiteatro and on 10<sup>th<\/sup> October in Melo.<\/p>\n<p>Wine is never properly dressed without its perfume; the 2018 wine wears an inebriating one.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, we end with a piece of ancient Italian wisdom. This is from a poem by Giovanni Pascoli: <em>\u201cFumavano le calde erbe da presso, nel tondo ch\u2019ella inebri\u00f2 del flutto\u201d<\/em> [The hot grasses smoked nearby, in the ring that she inebriated with the flood\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] Inebriating scent. Aroma is one element of wine\u2019s identity and an expert can recognise a wine by its nose. In this vintage, the aroma was inebriating. Winter was gentle, mild and calm. The temperature was above average going into spring and bud-burst was&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\/1625"}],"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=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1625\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podereforte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}