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For more than 50 years, we have been cultivating these vineyards in an environmentally friendly way. On an everyday basis, that means spreading manure, no residual herbicides, and careful grass cover.
The latter technique is key, because it prevents erosion, controls vine vigour, increases levels of organic matter in the soil, develops surface life (such as ladybirds, bees and cicadas), soil life (e.g. micro-organisms, earthworms) and forces the roots to stretch deeper to exploit the soil's resources.
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Manual work is conducted constantly throughout the year, but there are four especially important periods:
- pruning is done solely by the estate staff: each person tends to the same parcel of vines every year, and thus shapes his “protégés” like sculptures.
- manual debudding of all the vines: this prevents leaf build-up around the bunches, ensures low yields, and ventilates the vine-trunks by letting natural light through!
- controlling the vines' vigour with grass cover, eco-friendly manure, and, if necessary, by removing some grapes before they ripen (green harvest).
- harvesting with all grapes hand-picked and sorted.
This type of extremely precise cultivation and monitoring means we obtain healthy grapes – the only way to make high-quality, highly concentrated wines
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