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This is last week's bulletin on the 2016 wine harvest. White grape harvests imminent in southern Italy and almost ready in the more northerly areas.
The 2016 vintage in Italy is forecast to be top quality, with better quality than France, who takes the lead on quantity. In Italy, production is slightly increased on last year, and the quality is exceptionally high, which always bodes well for a good vintage.Reports on the high quality The grapes are exceptionally good, putting Italy in a very good position to compete on the international market, reports Andrea Faccio, Italian President of the National Wine Producer's Association.
"It is vital that we should be in the top position, not as producers so much as producers of the best quality/price index. These figures should be more stable this year, especially on price, for the types of wine available on the international markets. There has been a rise in production this year in lesser known wines from grape varieties from areas of the same name, such as Ruchè from Piedmont (Northwest Italy), or Valtesinesi from Lombardy.
As regards volume, a rise of 5% in production is predicted on last year's yields, not withstanding problems arising from frost and hail where producers have virtually done miracles to keep the season going.
We are by no means talking of the disastrous year of 2014, says Confagrcoltura, because weather conditions, all told were good, in spite difficult ,and they it was the same this year as well. Harvests started with the sparkling wines, in Franciacorta in Lombardy, in some areas of the Veneto and also in Sicily, which are alwaysd the grapes that ripen first.
In Piedmont, it has to be said, the harvests started at the beginning of this month with the tradtional white grapes (Moscato d'Asti DOCG) The reds will be harvested towards the end of the month. The reds in Puglia (south east - the 'heel' of Italy), harvesting started a little late for the area, at the end of August.
And a note of despair: In Piedmont, around Asti, the sparkling Moscato dAsti DOC was assessed as follows: per Kg DOC Moscato was priced at 1.10 Euro for 1000 Kg. Now DOC quantities have been reduced to 1.10 Euro per 7800Kg.
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The 2016 vintage in Italy is forecast to be top quality, with better quality than France, who takes the lead on quantity. In Italy, production is slightly increased on last year, and the quality is exceptionally high, which always bodes well for a good vintage.Reports on the high quality The grapes are exceptionally good, putting Italy in a very good position to compete on the international market, reports Andrea Faccio, Italian President of the National Wine Producer's Association.
"It is vital that we should be in the top position, not as producers so much as producers of the best quality/price index. These figures should be more stable this year, especially on price, for the types of wine available on the international markets. There has been a rise in production this year in lesser known wines from grape varieties from areas of the same name, such as Ruchè from Piedmont (Northwest Italy), or Valtesinesi from Lombardy.
As regards volume, a rise of 5% in production is predicted on last year's yields, not withstanding problems arising from frost and hail where producers have virtually done miracles to keep the season going.
We are by no means talking of the disastrous year of 2014, says Confagrcoltura, because weather conditions, all told were good, in spite difficult ,and they it was the same this year as well. Harvests started with the sparkling wines, in Franciacorta in Lombardy, in some areas of the Veneto and also in Sicily, which are alwaysd the grapes that ripen first.
In Piedmont, it has to be said, the harvests started at the beginning of this month with the tradtional white grapes (Moscato d'Asti DOCG) The reds will be harvested towards the end of the month. The reds in Puglia (south east - the 'heel' of Italy), harvesting started a little late for the area, at the end of August.
And a note of despair: In Piedmont, around Asti, the sparkling Moscato dAsti DOC was assessed as follows: per Kg DOC Moscato was priced at 1.10 Euro for 1000 Kg. Now DOC quantities have been reduced to 1.10 Euro per 7800Kg.
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Enough is never as good as a feast Oscar Wilde