HARVEST DIARY 2022 | POGGIO AL TESORO 13 12 HARVEST DIARY 2022 | POGGIO AL TESORO The agronomist words Can you tell us more about your experience from an agronomist point of view for the harvest 2022? Like all vintages, the 2022 it was very special. Not easy, nor difficult, but careful management. It has been characterized from a seasonal course extremely dry, but thanks to our deep soils and clayey, able to maintain humidity, which can then be issued in case of need, we managed to cope well following water vine needs. Our vineyards have important root systems, even two meters, two and a half meters, able to reach groundwater present in depth. At Poggio al Tesoro the management of water is done with a careful approach, fully respecting sustainability: our interest is to rescue, without wasting the resources at our disposal. We are able to withdraw from the wells, present in ours properties, small quantities of water that we use to cool the systems with sprinkler irrigation. Despite the vintage characterized by higher temperatures than the seasonal averages, the screws followed the phenological phases correctly and peacefully during the season, from the first budding to flowering, veraison and maturation. All our grapes entered the cellar healthy, despite in the last stage from 10th to 15th of August, we have witnessed several days of rain. We have guided the harvest dedicating individual days to single varieties, anticipating some days the early varieties such as Syrah and Merlot, and postponing the late, such as Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon or Petit Verdot which, depending on typology have received more or less rainwater. It has been a fairly long harvest, which has begun on August 17th and finished on September 24th. Over 40 days of harvest. In addition to the small, related precautions to irrigation, we are committed to carry forward a series of alternative activities to cope with the highs temperatures: the application of kaolin, which lowers the vineyard temperature of about 2 or 3 degrees; the coverage of the land, which protects the soul of the vines, the roots; grassing, a form of soil protection; the green manure, an agronomic practice which, in addition to bringing organic substance, is also an important form of soil protection.
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