La Scolca 2012 Harvest - 94 years of Passion, History and Modernity

La Scolca 2012 Harvest - 94 years of Passion, History and Modernity PR Newswire GAVI, Italy, September 12, 2012 GAVI, Italy, September 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The philosophy of La Scolca: To obtain an excellent wine from excellent grapes. The 2012 vintage at La Scolca started two weeks in advance compared to the average of recent years, with a high quality production. After a hot and dry summer which resulted in an advance of the grape harvest of about a month, compared to 30 years ago. The wind dried the soil and climate, and returned with a high range temperature: it allowed us to start the harvest on th September 7 (see the video at http://www.scolca.it - http://www.youtube.com/user/Scolca1) under the most favorable conditions and in advance of the usual harvests of our "micro-zone" that normally can take advantage of the marine breeze benefits and temperate climate of the Ligurian sea. This advance protects the grapes from the risk of the first symptoms of decay of the skins moisture due to the first rain fall and lower temperatures. At La Scolca the winemaking system allows to respect the origin of grapes, vineyards by vineyards, making wineseparately with a computerized control system that prevents the "mixing" of musts and separates "fractions" of pressure and different origins. All La Scolca's Gavi are produced with Cortese grapes from different vineyards of different ages .