Old vines
Buying an Old Vineyard
It was Franco, Podere Leccio’s cellar hand, who eventually gave voice to his and Sig. Bernardi’s opinion of the Fiorentino, when I pointed out, a few days into October, that the Fiorentino still had not harvested. “He picked the white grapes,” Franco said. “The red ones he sells to someone else. Last year, whoever it
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The Fiorentino
I first heard the Fiorentino mentioned by Sig. Bernardi, the foreman at Podere Leccio, where, in the fall of 2019, I was borrowing some space to make my wine–not in Olmo’s wine cellar but in its former stalls, a long room with a stone floor, double-chestnut doors at the entrance and a half-moon-shaped window at