Stories from Our Vineyard

Last weekend marked another milestone for us: our 2025 vintage of La Volpe Rossa went into bottle. It was a wet August day, which made things slightly more complicated, but by mid-morning the mobile bottling line had arrived and everyone had found a job. For a small winery like ours, the bottling line comes to us. The entire operation arrives on the back of a truck and is set up just outside the cellar. Our wine travelled from the tank in the cellar, through a long hose and i

August... and it is hot, hot, hot. Weeks of relentless heat and very little rain have left the hillside dry and brown, and some of our younger vines are beginning to struggle. This is the first year we have had to water by hand. We don’t have an irrigation system, which means filling the tank, taking the tractor down the rows and watering the young vines one by one. It is slow work, especially on such a steep slope. Fortunately, there are always a few extra pairs of hands to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8FEkgYfpqY Quando penso a come una vigna possa trasformarsi in un vero e proprio protagonista di un cortometraggio, mi viene in mente un’esperienza personale che ha cambiato il mio modo di vedere il paesaggio rurale e la narrazione cinematografica. Non si tratta solo di un luogo dove crescono uve, ma di un ambiente vivo, ricco di storie, emozioni e simbolismi. In questo post voglio raccontarti come una vigna è diventata il cuore pulsante di un