Too little rainfall: drought nightmare already looming over the 2023 grape harvest. Fabio Marchisio: «It must rain for a month in a row, in the Roero there are also insufficient water sources for emergency irrigation of the vineyards».
Wine production and drought: scorching, dry summers. Marchisio’s: yes, need to gear up for irrigation. Green and amphora help: cooler wines.
Snow on Marchisio Family vineyards in Castellinando. Whitewashed rows, after dry months: still not enough, but the snowfall helps make up for the water stress suffered by the rows last summer.
Harvest 2022 okay, though early. The real problem: the severe drought. The summer without rain hit hard in the Roero. Result: even 30 percent less harvest.
Drought alert. People are hoping for rain to save a season threatened by great thirst. «Without a good dose of rainfall», warns Fabio Marchisio, «we
«Ancient wisdom taught that our sea reaches as far as the olive tree grows», writes the eminent Yugoslav intellectual Predrag Matvejević in his beautiful “Mediterranean
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MARCHISIO FAMILY ORGANIC ESTATE S.S.A.
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