Sciacchetrà cinqueterre | Terra di Bargòn

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Inizio CYCLE OF PRODUCTION
Cycle of production of Sciacchetrà
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This cycle is different each year. Exact times vary as  the rigid rhythms of work and activities are dictated by nature. This takes place in a territory in which the small plots of cultivable land are located in beautiful yet treacherously steep terrain. Added to the fatigue to cultivate theese small plots rescued from the steep slopes of a very "scheletrica" soil, there is the need to maintain the stone walls.

 


The only feasible structural intervention to modernize vine growing has been  the setting by of the monorail in 1980 by Cooperativa Agricola, 16 km located in the steepest scope, where now grapes are  no longer carried by arms from the vines to the winery.

The rhythm of activities: the grapes harvest can start, in autumn, only when the grapes are perfectly ripe, in relation to sun and rain. Immedaitely layed to dry on the trellises they will be gathered  at the precise moment when properly dried, depending on ventilation. The activities of pruning in winter, set by the autumn climate, by which the vines will loose their leaves.
 Finally, in the winery, the various phases of vinification, as no yeasts are added, are determined by the spontaneous times of fermentation and transformation of sugars in achoholic percentage.
 The rhythm of activities in spring and in summer: inspection and protection, is less intense, in relation to climatic variance.