70 Act II / Poggio al Tesoro, Nature and the Elements 71 Act II / Poggio al Tesoro, Nature and the Elements To be more precise, there are eighty days in which its rains, thirty five – very few indeed – in this warmer period. This semester also includes a certain amount of spring rain, and if we limited ourselves to rainfall during the three sole months of summer the total would be less than 10 centimeters (four inches). The larger part of the summer storms born in the Tyrrhenian Sea, finding no obstacles in their path, run rapidly through the Bolgheri skies, and unload their water over the Tuscan interior. These simple statistics tell us that there are few cloudy days, there is a greater luminosity, and that this scarce rainfall, as a result of the prevalently sandy soils, penetrates rapidly into the ground without evaporation during the following days, a phenomenon which principally involves soil strata closer to the surface insofar as the deeper strata are able to almost entirely conserve the water which has fallen. Little water falls, but almost all of it is available to the vines when they will need it as their roots, in this soil, penetrate very far underground. The large amount of water in the sea influences and regulates the small amount of water which falls on Bolgheri, favoring the role of Nesti – the nymph whose tears, accordingly to mythology, supplies the water of springs and fountains - in the wines of Bolgheri. But the sea and its water are also capable of moistening the air as well, moving it continuously in all different directions. Previous pages: Cabernet Sauvignon planted in 2004, the second year of planting Next pages: Oasis in Bolgheri
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