During the latest harvest at Podere Sapaio we decided to try winemaking in amphora for the first time. “Terracotta” is a totally natural and handmade material. It is pure simplicity. In working with amphora there is very little mechanization, everything is manual, sensibly manual. Something suitable to countless situations. It’s a fascinating method, an ancestral …
Waiting for harvest at Podere Sapaio…
“Metti una sera a Cena”: a quote as a tribute to Giuseppe Patroni Griffi‘s great movie, with such a brilliant cast: Trintignant, Bolkan, Musante, Girardot, Capolicchio and the marvelous Ennio Morricone‘s soundTrack. But the “dinner” we are talking about is not the one of those long gone seventies, but the one nowadays, “Steak night in …
The early years we didn’t have much to do during the harvest. In 2001, 2002 and 2003 we bought some “Trebbiano toscano” grapes from a neighbor, we had them wither, then in January we put them in some “caratelli scolmi” (small wooden vessels barrel-shaped) and forgot about them for 10 years. In 2011 we bottled …
Cabernet Sauvignon from Le Lame vineyard closed 2015 harvest while the Autumn is painting Sapaio vineyards with his colors