Rallo Discover, Mosella 22-25 novembre 2024

MENÙ IT ・EN Rallo Discover, Mosella 22-25 novembre 2024 Once upon a time there was a winding river, flowing through the bed of a valley with very steep slopes on top of which stood marvelous castles surrounded by vineyards. Once upon a time there was the Moselle in its most fascinating and history-rich stretch, the German one, where one of the most interesting wine regions in the world lies. And then… and then there was us…! #RalloDiscover is a project born from collaboration with a dear friend of ours, Francesco Pensovecchio, as well as an impeccable guide on the journey just concluded, which saw us as protagonists discovering a marvelous territory devoted mainly to the production of white wines. It was fantastic to discover how the sunlight we are accustomed to is exploited to the maximum elsewhere, thanks to the steep slopes, the exposure of the vineyards and the river that reflects it. It is the vineyards that make this landscape unique in the world: the traditional training system of this area, the “Moselpfahlerziehung”, employed since the 1st century by the Romans, requires that each vine be fixed to a single stake and that the two main canes be bent and tied together, sometimes even forming a heart. The soil consists mainly of slate and gives mineral notes on the palate and a very pronounced acidity. #RalloDiscover is a format aimed at younger people that we will certainly repeat next year, four days of discoveries and exchange in search of unique territories. Tutte le notizie weblog Harvest report 2025 MENÙ IT ・EN 2025 Harvest Report The 2025 vintage was characterized by a more abundant rainfall regime compared to the previous year, with precipitation concentrated mainly durin weblog Merano Wine festival 2024 MENÙ IT ・EN Merano Wine festival 2024 “Quo Vadis?” La 33° edizione di Merano WineFestival, in scena dall’8 al 12 novembre 2024, lancia il quesito a tutti gli attori del s weblog Rallo Discover, Mosella 22-25 novembre 2024 MENÙ IT ・EN Rallo Discover, Mosella 22-25 novembre 2024 C’era una volta un fiume sinuoso, che scorreva nel letto di una valle dai ripidissimi pendii in cima ai quali sorgevano weblog AV01, vini rari gambero rosso 2025 Le parole di Andrea Vesco MENÙ IT ・EN AV01, Gambero Rosso 2025 Rare Wines. Andrea Vesco’s words:   Among certain “savages” (stateless societies), the chief must prove his mastery over weblog Harvest Report 2024 MENÙ IT ・EN Report vendemmia 2024 La raccolta dell’uva per la vendemmia 2024 in casa Rallo, bianchisti tra Alcamo e Marsala, è iniziata il 16 agosto, con una decina di giorni weblog Questo non è il mio vino di Andrea Vesco MENÙ IT ・EN Questo non è il mio vino di Andrea Vesco Pochi comparti agro industriali sono affollati come quello enologico, e le motivazioni sono essenzialmente due: basse barri weblog Quando l’anima sa leggere MENÙ IT ・EN Quando l’anima sa leggere Un antico paese siciliano fa da sfondo alla lenta quotidianità dei suoi abitanti. Spira il vento ricco di sale dalla poco lontana co weblog Alba Rosea wine MENÙ IT ・EN Alba Rosea In the wine landscape, rosé wine does not always have the reputation it deserves, remains relatively unknown, and there are still prejudices or limited k weblog La casa dello champagne MENÙ IT ・EN The House of Champagne Helen Fripp in The House of Champagne, published by Newton Compton, tells us the fascinating story behind the famous wine production and at th

AV01, vini rari gambero rosso 2025 Le parole di Andrea Vesco

MENÙ IT ・EN AV01, Gambero Rosso 2025 Rare Wines. Andrea Vesco’s words:   Among certain “savages” (stateless societies), the chief must prove his mastery over words: no silence. At the same time, the chief’s word is not uttered to be heard – no one pays attention to the chief’s word, or rather, they feign inattention; and the chief, in fact, says nothing, since he repeats the celebration of traditional norms of life. What question from primitive society does this empty word emanating from the apparent place of power answer? Empty, the chief’s discourse is such precisely because it is separated from power – the place of power is society itself. The chief must move in the element of the word, that is, the opposite of violence. The chief’s duty of speech, this continuous flow of an empty word (not empty in the traditional sense of transmission) that he owes to the tribe, is the infinite debt, the guarantee that forbids the man of words from becoming a man of power. M. Blanchot The Writing of the Disaster Ed. Se s.r.l. – Milan – Therefore, what follows are my words. I am not an oenologist and I don’t know chemistry, nor am I an agronomist, I have no technical skills; I have developed the senses, the five that categorize material reality and a sixth one that often intercepts, absorbing them, the emotional vibrations of my travel companions, whether they have been with me from the beginning, or present starting from stations after the first, or no longer present because they’ve already gotten off, already home… Through others and by means of them my modest abilities and my limited sensitivity expand, allowing me to see and feel things that would otherwise remain foreign to me. It is thanks to interferences, excesses, drifts, syntheses between irreconcilables that creativity restores to truth its primacy over ideologies, composed and complete but stale and sterile. Individual happiness, on the other hand, can only be aspired to on condition of respecting the Delphic Apollo’s warning. Individuality as a successful process of individuation, precisely, is the path that, allowing everyone to become what they have always been, brings back, in a conscious manner, to the completeness of one’s origins. In short, one never escapes from oneself, from what we could be, except at the price of eternal unhappiness. AV01 – Catarratto di Alcamo – is precisely the narrative tool of a collective individuation journey, that of a composite and varied team, which after a very long odyssey, returns to its “stony” origins. In these 20 years we have suffered the lures of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet and even Merlot, we were kidnapped by the same promises that kept Ulysses in Ogygia or at Aeaea, we risked being, we too, transformed into pigs, being only emulators and therefore no one, we lived in anonymity, we betrayed our fathers, ourselves, renouncing the only possible inheritance. We risked yes, but we didn’t end up on the rocks. Interior research, listening to the spiritus loci, our finite and transitory individuality, as well as among our traditions, sedimented collective skills, have allowed us to produce a wine that could satisfy our own and others’ need for authenticity, uniqueness and exclusivity. Our work is dedicated to those who wish to experience convivial moments, like sharing a meal and a glass of wine, that are not exhausted in the very moment they are lived, but that are symbolic excess and possibility of individual recovery, through absolute rarities, of collective treasures. The winemaking technique is the result of modern knowledge contextualized in a precise geographical and therefore ampelographic area, the hills of Alcamo and Catarratto, that grape as common as it is exceptional. Cellar activities rather than adding, maintain, enhance, pass through the renunciation of the superfluous: yeasts, activators, nitrogen nutrients, and oblige themselves to find in the few resources of the raw material worked, the skins, the stems, the pulp, the juice, all the components useful to a regulated process never left to chance. It is precisely the lack of recourse to elements or aids external to the grape and must other than temperature conditioning during fermentation that has made this wine complete in itself and absolutely successful in its harmonic combination of taste sensations and marvelous endowments of overwhelming but composed aromaticity, unusual but at the same time familiar. To the juice of the matter, fermented juice, a name was given, a pure denotation, and a garment, a first visual representation of what it was deemed should manifest of itself at first sight, and then a multiple paternity began to emerge, an identity in the making, an apparent discontinuity with respect to a family of origin, Rallo, unaccustomed to such an extreme, almost revolutionary productive style. AV01 appeared as the hippie son of a bourgeois family, foreign both to the world of belonging and to that of adherence and therefore unwelcome to both the first and the second. This is the destiny of all revolutionaries, outside the context of origin and new for what will come, precisely because it must still happen and fortunately the future lasts a long time… (L. Althusser, Biblioteca della Fenice) What “world” then could this wine mark, what horizons of meaning could it open? Those of a sociocultural context in perpetual relation between subjects, based on individual identities that through a work of consciously dialectical recovery and reconstruction of one’s own self, can authentically be themselves. This work of re-appropriation has been both individual and collective, it has involved everyone in the cellar, it has not been a perfunctory exercise, it has dug, destabilized, weakened, then strengthened, it has been a deconstructing training, an attempt to overcome the moment, fashion, immediate demands to return to proposing something that had real value that invited everyone to stop before a novelty, one’s own birth. Tutte le notizie weblog Harvest report 2025 MENÙ IT ・EN 2025 Harvest Report The 2025 vintage was characterized by a more abundant rainfall regime compared to