On Monday 30th May there was a members’ meeting at the Consorzio del Brunello. A vote was passed to further reduce yields per hectare. Now only up to 6.000 kg of grapes can be harvested per hectare for the production of Brunello, rather… Read the rest Posts tagged as:
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On Monday 30th May there was a members’ meeting at the Consorzio del Brunello. A vote was passed to further reduce yields per hectare. Now only up to 6.000 kg of grapes can be harvested per hectare for the production of Brunello, rather… Read the rest 
Opus Vino, a magnificent reference book to more than 4,000 of the world’s greatest wineries and their wines, has showcased Il Palazzone as one of their chosen producers…
Opus Vino – Tuscany – Il Palazzone
Happy New Year everyone!
We received the idoneità – the final approval of our 2006 Brunello – and can proceed with our plans to bottle this vintage soon.
I have just ordered the corks. We use natural unbleached cork grown in Italy. Bleached corks… Read the rest 
In the old days, when we had a restaurant, the cost and prestige of a wine went hand in hand with the bottle weight. One could practically tell from an empty bottle’s weight what its price point would have been.… Read the rest 
A couple of Sundays ago decisions were made about the 2006 vintage.
Paolo Vagaggini, our winemaker, hosted us at the lab and then for a follow-up at his beautiful home in Siena. The day started with men in white… Read the rest 
A microclimate is a local atmospheric zone where the climate differs from the surrounding area.
The Brunello production area is nearly circular and has a 16 km diameter (10 miles). It covers 240.000 hectares (nearly 60.000 acres) of which… Read the rest 
Our 2004 is now available in the US!
No, that’s not a typo, I do mean 2004. We made all of 8.633 bottles of this wine, bottled on 31 July 2008 after over 36 months of wood aging in large… Read the rest 
It often happens that not being certified organic appears to be a big black mark for an estate (a #fail to use my new-found twitter vocabulary) that I was especially pleased to be interviewed by Ben Simons on www.vinotology.com about… Read the rest 
There are DOCG rules for everything so it should come as no surprise that the wood ageing of the wine is also monitored. However this is one area where there is a lot of room for different interpretations which result… Read the rest 
Only a very few winemakers – enologi – work in Montalcino.
I’ll leave a pause for this statement and its implications to sink in.
So how many? Perhaps nine or ten, four of whom only work for one estate.… Read the rest 
The maximum yield for Brunello is currently 7.000 kg of grapes per hectare.
For those of you who enjoy mathematics, the conversion of grapes to wine is 68%.
Producers prune to limit the potential production of grapes. This results in… Read the rest 
It is quite common for wineries to own several vineyards in quite different parts of Montalcino. There are many single vineyard cru (wines made exclusively from one vineyard, usually bearing the name of that vineyard); Cerretalto from Casanova di… Read the rest 
Premise: I am staying well clear of the definition of terroir …
Wonderful Eric Asimov in the New York Times http://tinyurl.com/yb7q373 recently compared the set-up in Bordeaux to that of Montalcino:
“Bordeaux .. recognizes .. adjoining territories can have differing characteristics… Read the rest 
Every vintage of Brunello receives a star rating out of five, ranging from insufficient (one star) to exceptional (five stars). The vintage evaluation takes place in the January following harvest. All producers are invited to submit their latest wine for lab… Read the rest 
First things first : one of the DOCG regulations that governs the production of Brunello is that no intervention with the weather is permitted. That’s right, no use of technology, no smudge pots or vine irrigation, no compensating for nature’s… Read the rest http://www.finewineclub.com.au/AZwine/I/Il_Palazzone_bfow%20.html
Oh yes, it was very heartening to be listed as an estate amongst the “Brunello elite” by Eric Asimov in his recent article in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/dining/reviews/06wine.html, although his general conclusions about Brunello were rather depressing (though… Read the rest 
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