…in
one of the plots of land purchased, on the top of a hill that separates two
valleys, an old elm tree stands, only two large men can embrace
it, in our dark and sunny winters it can be seen from all of the surrounding
hills, almost as if it dominates the valleys, in a period in which
elm trees died due to acid rains, diseases, insects... he rose as if to prove
his strength and invulnerable personality... and right there on a day in spring
I passed by and noticed it and decided to call the company the "old elm
tree".
We started to clean the land, the first plot of
land called 'the field of pebbles', 5 hectares
for the plot of land, in order to transform
the land into safe and ideal conditions, we drained
the entire plot, 7 metres deep, all of this work
lasted the whole summer, we planted sauvignon blanc,
chardonnay, black pinot borgogna, grey pinot...
This valley is rather special, it has
a large canal of air that blows throughout the
year even in the hottest months and it creates
a good temperature range which leads to very
special aromas and fragrances, almost unusual
for this area.
The following year we moved onto the 3
hectares of the Morone valley, here
huge drainage and layout intervention was carried
out, we planted barbera, cabernet franc and croatina.
Subsequently we moved onto the olive fields, the most
difficult challenge, with 1 hectare of merlot, surrounded
by a secular forest, which had already left us speechless during the
first few years of production....
…the first year of planting 2003… results in
2006
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Campo di Oliva
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Campo dei Sassi
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Campo dei Sassi
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Valle Morone
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Borgo
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