Curiosity
“During my first Vinitaly in 1989 I found myself sitting to present my 1988 Cinqueterre to a very young American buyer. In those years, high quality white types of white were imported to America, but they were products from regions that expressed aromatic and fruity sensations. He did not know the Cinqueterre and had never tasted it. The taste aroused in him an expression of disorientation and almost aversion because he expected very different sensations on the palate. Instead, there were sensations of sapidity and minerality that he did not know and that manifest themselves from the first sip. Sensations aroused by the great body and power that persist in the mouth and fully describe our territory.
Thirty years ago the Americans did not know us, today they seek us out, appreciate us and join us to spend their holidays where they have learned to appreciate our territories and our products up close. ” Giacomo Forlini Cappellini
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“It is the wine that I connect to my childhood, to the conviviality of the harvest with my relatives and my family. It is the wine that I love to drink in the company of friends and relatives, a perfect match. ” Giacomo Forlini Cappellini
Wine tips
Liguria, in particular the Cinqueterre are famous for terracing, or terrace cultivation, or steps. These generally represent a solution adopted in agriculture to make areas with a particular and accentuated slope on a steep terrain suitable for cultivation, as in the case of the Cinque Terre.
The terraces are obtained by digging hilly parts on the level then delimited by stone walls, in the Ligurian dialect “maixei”, built dry and resting on live rock, which support the ground forming a sort of step, also carrying out an action of prevention of avalanches, floods, avalanches, counteracting land erosion and desertification, improving biodiversity and creating the best microclimatic conditions for agriculture. In this way, even the steepest hills can be used for crops, especially olives and vines, but also for small gardens.
The “Art of dry stone walls” is registered in the list of intangible elements declared “World Heritage” by Unesco. A fair recognition of a tradition that in Italy unites Valtellina and the Amalfi Coast from north to south, Pantelleria with the Cinque Terre and in Puglia Salento and the Itria Valley, created and preserved over time thanks to the work of generations of farmers. engaged in the fight against hydrogeological instability.
Liguria, with its hidden gardens and vineyards perched on the hills overlooking the sea, is the privileged home of dry stone walls. From west to east there are 42 thousand hectares of terraces. A real art that delights us with unique breathtaking landscapes.
In Liguria, therefore, this type of viticulture makes the work of the winemakers heroic. It is impossible, in fact, to get there with machines and machinery, for this reason the necessary manual skill imposes a considerable increase in costs in the production of these special wines. It is not unusual to find pulley systems in these terraces that allow the movement and transport of grapes during the harvest, otherwise seriously difficult and ultra-wasteful of energy.
In these efforts, in this resistance, in this dispassionate love for a profound tradition lies the magic of Ligurian and Cinqueterre wines.
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