The Roselle <\/strong>area, historically of great importance in the segment of Maremma around Grosseto<\/strong>, has always been one of the areas with the lowest rainfall in all of Maremma. This factor leads to a lower incidence of disease in the vines<\/strong> and fuller ripening of the grapes<\/strong>, which in turn allows us to produce the kinds of showcase wines we\u2019ve always aspired to.<\/p>\n Our Vermentino <\/strong>grapes, thanks to the dry summer and its sunshine needs, ripened beautifully and gave the must a full dose of its typical freshness and balance.<\/p>\n We harvested the Sangiovese<\/strong> in two separate stages: the first batch was harvested early for use in our classic-method sparkling and the second later on to be used as a still wine. Both are showing excellent promise from the early musts. This \u2018doubling up\u2019 served the twin purpose of thinning the vines and giving the grapes destined for the still wine a further month to ripen and become our Giov\u00e8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n With our Merlot<\/strong>, the real flagship of our winery, we\u2019ve got a product that speaks eloquently for itself, and for us. Even though it\u2019s the variety that was at greatest risk of fungal attacks this year, it managed to preserve all its worth thanks to the sun exposure of the vines and the unique climate in the area.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t a particularly abundant harvest, just as in the whole of Maremma and Tuscany, but it\u2019s produced results we\u2019re very happy about and proud of, just as we\u2019re happy and proud to have completed our first five years of experience in the vineyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Roselle area, historically of great importance in the segment of Maremma around Grosseto, has always been one of the areas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gagiablu.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gagiablu.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gagiablu.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gagiablu.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gagiablu.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gagiablu.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/www.gagiablu.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gagiablu.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gagiablu.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gagiablu.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gagiablu.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}