Vocabolo Stucchio - 05023 - Baschi, Italy - +39 3313323017
Vineyards
From our terroir to your glass
Walking through our vineyards
as we have the pleasure of doing often the changing soil types and various densities of the vines are easily identified. We have new vines planted in 2007 alongside very old ones from 1970.
Our vineyards are on the top of a hill, about 300 meter above sea level, in an area called “I Poggi di Baschi” with a real reputation for great wines.
The soil can be clay, marly or tuff, sometimes with small pebbles; surprisingly enough, it is also rich of fossils generating a high mineral content, ideal elements for a consistent acidity in the white wines. The vineyards cover slopes exposed to the southeast and southwest.
Heading down to the lowest part of our vineyards, you come across the huge rocky basement on which our hill rests. Believe us: when this rocky wall colours yellow with broom, this is a rare sight!
Only the experience of many harvests enables us to decide on the correct actions in our vineyards (pruning, defoliation, thinning, treatments) and every year the bond with our land becomes stronger.
Single or double Guyot is used for white and spurred Cordon for red vines. We do not use chemical weeding at all on our estate and anti-fungus treatments are reduced to a minimum.
At Podere Barbi we are surrounded by vines. From a specific spot you look over the small Corbara lake surrounded by green hills and from our farmhouse the view of the city of Orvieto resting on its rocky, thousand-year-old platform is gorgeous.
Vocabolo Stucchio - 05023 - Baschi, Italy - +39 3313323017