June 2023

Deserve what you love; love what you deserve

Merito means deserved. Every vintage we select the wine that is most deserving to spend a longer time aging in wood and be bottled in purezza. These wines merit attention. Now, the world beyond our little hill is beginning to notice them too. The total production of the 2020 vintage is just 1,596 bottles and those 133 cases have been moving fast. We want to be sure that you, our most loyal supporters, have had a chance to secure further supply of Merito 2020. You deserve it!

Write to us this week using this link for a Custom Order if you are tempted by a delivery before summer. Be sure to also consider replenishing your Chardonnay and Rosso reserves.

No rose without a thorn

We are experiencing a wet and cool spring, very different from last year when temperatures in May hit 86F. This month has had twice as many rainy days as average and almost four times the normal rainfall - much to the amazement of anyone visiting with expectations dictated by Under the Tuscan Sun. Daily afternoon storms have been unleashing hail and have circled but, so far, avoided the vineyard.

And yet I have never seen the countryside look so emerald green. The vineyards are lush and verdant and the vine-shoots are growing as much as an inch a day, striving to reach the next wire. The roses are a stunning explosion of color at the end of each vine. Roses were used historically as a miner’s canary, giving farmers advance warning of incipient disease in the vines in time for intervention. Now their function is primarily aesthetic, and they are doing a beautiful job.