An Embarrassing Silence

It has been an extraordinary day, after an evening of rain, today the sky is brilliant. There is the smell of summer - we don’t always feel it in the mountains - and the silence, that is normal for us, is perhaps embarrassing for somebody coming here for the first time.

During these last weeks, in the vineyard we have completed the trimming and pruning carried out according to the maturing of the various varieties of grape.

The foliage has been removed to reveal the clusters that were less exposed. Between the rows one sees multitudes of coloured butterflies of many varieties - and also some deer that arrive early in the morning eating the more mature grapes.