HARVEST DIARY 2022 | POGGIO AL TESORO 9 8 HARVEST DIARY 2022 | POGGIO AL TESORO Christian Coco and his first vintage at Poggio al Tesoro Christian Coco, since 2022 winemaker and key figure in our reality: Londoner of birth and Tuscan by adoption, born in 1980, after his classic studies, he undertakes his studies of viticulture and oenology at the University of Pisa. His career path begins in Capalbio, at the estate Monteti. The entrance at Poggio al Tesoro, has represented to him a turning point and a great change, he handles many more labels vs. his previous experience. His secret: he has worked every wine like if it was the only one of the winery. He told us that it was all much easier as he found skilled and experienced people at Poggio al Tesoro, adding that “- in the world of wine, the human context and reciprocal help are fundamental things. There are people who think that the wine is done with a recipe, while a very good wine is done considering the mix of climate, nature, and man: nature must give you the raw material, the climate must ensure a correct maturation, man must transform the fruit in wine and accompany it towards those oenological objectives that the company has it is pre-set. A harmonious, elegant wine, refined, can only be obtained from an environment in which we can find all these adjectives. Christian continues talking about the 2022 harvest as one of the most complex made throughout his career. Complex because the vintage was “split” completely in half: “- at first, we thought it was one harvest in line with those of recent years, i.e. hot and dry summers, so we worked in the vineyard to prepare ourselves to face this shortage of water and coolness (conditions that help plants reach their complete maturation), however, at the end of August we were taken by surprise by a period of high rainfall which resulted in longer waiting times in order to start the harvest. As a conclusion, using the words of our winemaker with a quote: “this weatherrelated circumstances created the conditions for it to be a vintage “very Bordeaux”: complex and interesting both in terms of structures and aromas.
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