12/10/2026
One of the hottest summers. One of the earliest harvests. And excellent grapes.
It was one of the hottest summers in years, perhaps ever. Climate change is real.
Luckily, we had rain in the right moments that contributed to grapes of very good quality.
The fermentation has been super long this year. Indeed, the Cabernet was still fermenting when Lorenzo wrote the article the other day...
Lorenzo writes:
"𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡, 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟. 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑔𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔: 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑏𝑢𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠, 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑠, 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑, 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑔𝑎𝑟."
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