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1Organic Winemaking, Tenuta Le Mandorlaie

Its late August and after a difficult year looking after the vines, mostly due to the changing weather conditions and lots of flip flopping with the weather, rain, then heat, then ice, then heat, then rain, it was just never settled weather. Infact even in July when the summer heat should have meant we could have a break from keeping the vines free from fungus we still had rain and heat, rain and heat. As only our second year with our vines it was a steep learning curve to keep the vines safe. Now, moving into the end of August it is great to see healthy grapes bunches on the

1Tuscany Wines

Its an incredible time of year, veraison, when we start to see the color appearing in the grapes, it is the transition from berry growth to berry ripening and is a physiological stage in the grapevines life cycle that is also shown by a change in both the appearance and hardness of the grape. Grape size During this phase the size of the grape is set, smaller berries are favoured in order to make high quality wine as there is a better 'skin to juice' ratio which combines to give the wine a better structure and concentration of flavor. Do all grapes ripen together? Not all grapes bunches ripen at the