{"id":31572,"date":"2016-10-17T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T13:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donnafugata.it\/blog\/2016\/10\/17\/2016-harvest-at-donnafugata\/"},"modified":"2016-10-17T13:07:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T13:07:47","slug":"2016-harvest-at-donnafugata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnafugata.it\/en\/blog\/2016-harvest-at-donnafugata\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 harvest at Donnafugata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A vintage with little rainfall and that was not overly hot; careful vineyard management offers healthy and well-ripened grapes, to produce wines of quality and longevity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2016 vintage was characterized by <strong>less rainfall compared to seasonal averages<\/strong>. At Contessa Entellina (from October 1<sup>st<\/sup> to present) rainfalls were 521 mm \/ 20 inches (compared to 648 mm \/ 25 inches of average in the past 10 years, from October 1<sup>st<\/sup> to September 30<sup>th<\/sup>), whereas on Pantelleria precipitations were only 276mm \/ 11 inches (compared to an average of 485 mm \/ 19 inches).<\/p>\n<p>Regarding temperatures, <strong>spring<\/strong> was mild and <strong>summer <\/strong>proceeded <strong>without excessive peaks of heat<\/strong>, allowing the vineyard to continue the vegetative cycle in a balanced way.<\/p>\n<p>In some vineyards in the beginning of the harvest there had been a slight delay of 3-4 days in the <strong>ripening<\/strong> of the grapes, but in the meantime this delay was caught up, so overall ripening times were in line with last year.<\/p>\n<p>While in Sicily a drop in production of about 10% was forecasted, at Donnafugata the <strong>quantities<\/strong> harvested were <strong>more or less in line with the company&#8217;s averages at Contessa Entellina but -30% on Pantelleria.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the Donnafugata estate <strong>in C<\/strong><strong>ontessa Entellina the harvest began on August 2<sup>nd<\/sup> <\/strong>with the harvesting of the little plots of Pinot Nero and Chardonnay, for the production of the winery&#8217;s two <em>metodo classico<\/em> sparkling wines, the brut ros\u00e9 and brut.<\/p>\n<p>At this estate<strong> the harvest got into full swing on August 10th, <\/strong>with the nighttime harvest of the Chardonnay; followed by Sauvignon Blanc, Viognier, Syrah, Merlot and Fiano. \u00a0On September 1<sup>st<\/sup> started the harvest of Nero D\u2019Avola for the production of the Ros\u00e9 wine Lumera whereas the grapes destinated for Mille e una Notte were collected one week later.<\/p>\n<p>The harvest of Grillo and Ansonica took place in the first decade of September, Catarratto in the second decade. The other red varieties Petit Verdot and Tannat were harvested between the first and second decade of September.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Pantelleria<\/strong>, the <strong>Zibibbo harvest started August 17 <\/strong>at the district of Punta Kharace, the 20th at Karuscia, the 21<sup>st<\/sup> at Bukkaram, the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> at Bugeber, the 24 at Khamma, the 27<sup>th<\/sup> at Favarotta, the 28<sup>th<\/sup> at Tracino and Monastero. The harvest continued in the districts of Ghirlanda, Serraglie, Gibbiuna, Mueggen and was concluded on September 15<sup>th<\/sup> at Barone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo compensate for scarce rainfall during the year \u2013 says Antonio Rallo, winemaker for the family business \u2013 and to help the vineyards reach optimal vegetation-production balance, we carried out some rescue <strong>irrigation<\/strong>; no less important was the <strong>cluster thinning<\/strong> performed on the more productive varieties, both in Contessa Entellina and on Pantelleria; on the island of sun and wind, in <em>contrada<\/em> Khamma, more than 30% cluster thinning was performed. At Contessa Entellina we thinned out in almost all red grape vineyards thus bringing home <strong>healthy and well-ripened grapes<\/strong>, an excellent premise of the quality and longevity of our wines. Last but not least with the 2016 harvest we reached another important goal for our winery as we have started to produce in the areas of <strong>Cerasuolo <\/strong>and <strong>Frappato di Vittoria<\/strong> as well as on Mount <strong>Etna <\/strong>where harvest ended on October 28th.\u201d \u2013 Antonio Rallo concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vintage with little rainfall and that was not overly hot; careful vineyard management offers healthy and well-ripened grapes, to produce wines of quality and longevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2108],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2016 harvest at Donnafugata - Donnafugata<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A vintage with little rainfall and that was not overly hot; 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