Wine stories

These days we are completing the canopy management operations. It is carried out in the spring-summer period as green pruning as it mainly takes place on the green organs of the vine. It affects all vegetative portions up until before the harvest to maintain the size of the foliage, ensuring the vine not only has a large but functional leaf surface, and avoiding unfavorable microclimatic conditions around the bunches.

The vine cutting is a small vine plant that gives rise to the future wine.

Spring has finally arrived in Montalcino!

The buds are opening

March 2024

Pruning work has begun, this activity has been postponed compared to the usual period to reduce the possible risk of frost that can happen now and then during this period.

At San Polo our green manures have grown very flourishingly, thanks to the high temperatures and abundant rainfall. Lush green manures like the ones we have contribute to the formation and stabilization of organic substances and decompact the soil, making it healthier and increasing the resilience of the vineyards to climate change.

If the weather stays this “spring-like,” we probably won't start pruning until the first week of March

Restoration of plants in the vineyard

It is part of the normal life of a vineyard: now and then, especially as the years go by, even the vines can die. It happens for many reasons: diseases or parasites that take over, cold spells, or simply due to the end of the life cycle. Then, we remove the dead vines and in their place, we plant new cuttings, the small vines.

Precisely during these days of celebration in Montalcino, for the annual "Benvenuto Brunello" event, San Polo is filled with honor...

The Rosso di Montalcino 2020 was included in Wine Spectator's TOP 100 list, Bruce Sandeson describes it like this...

he capsule that we are going to put in the vineyard to avoid the presence of the "tignoletta" is an important activity to preserve the health of the bunch. When the fruit is attacked by tignoletta, the berries still on the plant are brown and dried. It is therefore essential to intervene in time

The winter pruning starts a new production cycle. With pruning, the productive part of the plant is renewed, a new branch is selected, that will give rise to new shoots and consequently to the bunches.

Some images of our cellar whitened by the snow of January 2023

Amphora Vignamasso, le vin qui incarne l'esprit visionnaire de la tradition fait ses débuts.

San Polo devient un laboratoire d'idées, redécouvrant et innovant la vinification des amphores. Pour exprimer au mieux les caractéristiques variétales les plus authentiques du Sangiovese.

Debut of the wine that embodies the visionary spirit of tradition: San Polo has become a laboratory of ideas...

Once the harvest is over, there are numerous activities that need to be conducted on the field for the good maintenance of the vineyard...

A la campagne, une fois les vendanges terminées, il y a de nombreuses activités à réaliser pour le bon entretien du vignoble...

This harvest is drawing to a close and, with winemaking proceeding in the cellar, we are beginning to make an initial assessment of this 2022 vintage...

Cette récolte touche également à sa fin, et avec la vinification en cours en cave, nous commençons à faire le point sur ce millésime 2022...

New updates from the vineyard. This year we decided to slightly anticipate the pre-harvest peeling...

Nouvelles mises à jour du vignoble. Cette année, nous avons décidé d'anticiper légèrement l'effeuillage pré-récolte, une activité importante avec...

Here at San Polo the season continues and we are approaching the final stage of the grapes ripening, the most important for a late variety such as Sangiovese.

Thanks to the recent abundant rains...

Ici, à San Polo, la saison se poursuit et nous approchons de la dernière phase de maturation du raisin, la plus importante pour un cépage tardif comme le Sangiovese...

During the summer season, it is very important to take care of the vines maintenance, arranging the clusters and slightly thinning, where necessary...

Pendant la saison estivale, il est très important de s'occuper de l'entretien des plantes, en arrangeant les grappes et en les éclaircissant légèrement si nécessaire...

In San Polo we started to remove some leaves from the vines. In the wall facing east or north...

L'effeuillage a commencé à San Polo. Sur le mur orienté à l'est ou au nord, selon l'orientation des rangs, on enlève les feuilles basales, positionnées sous...

In San Polo the flowering season proceeds swiftly, continuing to enchant with its beautiful colors, thanks to...

À San Polo, la floraison se poursuit et continue d'enchanter par ses belles couleurs, grâce à la lumière du beau temps qui illumine les..

Warm but breezy days and cool nights. Flowering has begun in San Polo...

The selection of the sprout is an important moment for the vineyard process, a phase that requires particular attention...

The spring atmosphere of these days is colored by the blooming of the green manures in the vineyard...

Pruning ... a delicate and fundamental activity, almost holy. A really important moment for the vine, fundamental help for the correct growth of future shoots.

February comes… a month of apparent calm in which we carry out small but fundamental activities to...

It's late January ... time for tastings in the cellar of the future 2019 Brunellos that are...

Brunello 2017, the first #BIO certified vintage of San Polo, 2017, according to @james.suckling. Acknowledgments that...

Today we begin the first racking off at San Polo winery: starting with...

At the end of September and after the harvest ... it is time for the soil to rest. As sustainability supporters and...

2021 will be remembered as a year of character, dynamic, unpredictable. It began with a...

Nature offers us clear signals that indicate grapes state of ripeness...

This year grapes selected for our Brunello...

We waited and hoped for it and finally, after a few weeks of high temperatures...

The new vines are growing very well and, in this period..

In today's inspection, we found the first grapes that have...

We are proud to share with you the latest results achieved by San Polo wines at Decanter Wine World Awards 2021...

Today we begin the last work on the canopy, to create the best conditions for...

We have begun the upper-canopy bundling, an agronomic practice which involves...

Today it’s time for the first phase of defoliation. The current phenological phase is referred to as...

Flowering has begun in the vineyards of San Polo. An unassuming but very important phase in the phenological cycle of the vine...

It is also essential to take care of the wall of leaves and today our focus is working on the canopy. We begin with...

We have finished working the soil below each row in the vineyards (with vines that are producing grapes) and today we will begin to work on the surface of the soil ...

Today we will select the shoots, a few weeks later than it was usually done in the past ...

The Moscato vines are budding fast! As an early season variety it is indeed very sensitive to rising temperatures ...

Bottling the wine is a very delicate phase of our work and is the culmination of all of our efforts in the vineyard and cellar ...

From this year onward we are also integrating a vision based on HOMEOPATHY. In fact, we are carrying out some tests ...

We are planting the Moscato Bianco rootstock in our new vineyard.
A few days ago ...

Today we are moving forward with partitioning the plots we will plant in the coming days ...

In the meantime, the experimental ageing of Sangiovese in amphora continues ...

Every day, we carefully observe as the preparatory work for the new vineyard continues. We note its changes and try to understand and anticipate the care it will require.

This is the time of year in which we patiently wait for the vine’s sap to resume, and in the meantime we focus on the everyday maintenance of the vineyards.

It is time for dry pruning, one of the main tasks in the vineyard during the winter months and fundamental to vineyard management.

We have been looking forward to this day with great enthusiasm. The team is still exhausted from the harvest but today they are ready for another important component of vineyard care: cover crops.

We move forward with our work on the new vineyard’s soil. Now is the time to proceed with more profound tillage after the ploughing in October.

The harvest was completed only a few days ago, and we are already enthusiastically returning to work for another important project: uprooting an old vineyard and preparing the ground for a new one ...