A note from Pievalta winery manager Silvia Loschi: Here’s a photo [above] of Verdicchio grapes taken today in our Moie vineyard. We’ve been preparing for the 2013 harvest this week. We started by checking and cleaning the press, tanks, and pumps. On Friday morning at 7:30 a.m., we began sampling berries in the Moie and … Read more
Above: The village of Maiolati Spontini is home to the Pievalta winery (one of the houses in the Barone Pizzini group). Castelli di Jesi is rapidly becoming one of Italy’s epicenters for organic and biodynamic farming practices. In May of this year — on May 1, to be precise, a date with great symbolic and … Read more
Above: The village of Maiolati Spontini is home to the Pievalta winery (one of the houses in the Barone Pizzini group). Castelli di Jesi is rapidly becoming one of Italy’s epicenters for organic and biodynamic farming practices. In May of this year — on May 1, to be precise, a date with great symbolic and … Read more
A note from the Barone Pizzini agronomist Pierluigi Donna: Barone Pizzini borrows certain techniques from biodynamics, like that of increasing the organic substance in the soil by planting legumes that thrive between the rows. The plants enrich the soil with natural nitrogen without the use of fertilizers. Using this “green manure” practice, we till the … Read more
The 2012 Pievalta was bottled today at the winery in Castelli di Jesi using a new bottle format that weighs significantly less than one used for the last vintage. The new bottle weighs only 460 grams, 90 grams less than the previous (which weighed 550 grams, a reduction of 17 percent). The new format will … Read more
Last month, we announced Barone Pizzini’s participation in the Italian Wine Carbon Calculator program. The following figures are the official results of the survey for 2009 and 2010. These comforting figures demonstrate that awareness of one’s our emissions allows us design a more virtuous process that helps winery in the short term and betters the … Read more
Last Saturday, Pievalta hosted its annual event, “Imagine a Winter Morning in an Organic Vineyard and the Lethargy of Nature.” Now in its second year, this fun gathering is led by our winemaker, Alessandro. He teaches the participants how to prune a vine. And then they go out and test their skills in the vineyard … Read more
Above: the Houston Sommelier Association is one of the leading wine professional trade groups in the USA today. Barone Pizzini manager and Franciacorta Consortium Vice President Silvano Brescianini will be leading a Franciacorta seminar at the Houston Sommelier Association on Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 10:30 a.m. The event is free and will be held at … Read more
Barone Pizzini manager will be pouring the “Tre Bicchieri” winner Barone Pizzini 2009 Franciacorta Brut Nature at the Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri tastings in New York (Feb. 6), Chicago (Feb. 11), and San Francisco (Feb. 13) next month. Click here for event and registration info. The Gambero Rosso tastings are open to members of the … Read more
From the department of “sometimes the old way of doing things is the best”… “Ol Roi,” his Majesty the Pig! Home made salame in bassa bergamasca (lower Bergamo).”