2024
After a rainy spring, July and August brought warmth to our vineyards, leading the grapes to full ripeness.
By the beginning of September, temperatures started to drop at night. This temperature shift helped to preserve the aromas. The harvest, which began on September 3rd, was completed on October 15th, with the picking of Turbiana for the future Lugana Riserva Menasasso. At last, a very good vintage!
2023
During this vintage, our vineyards were hit by two unusual hailstorms: the first on April 25, and the second on July 24.
The hailstorm on April 25 was unusual due to its early occurrence and the immense quantity of small hailstones that fell over the vineyards, destroying the growing buds. Everything seemed lost. However, nature has a resilience from which we could all learn: new buds sprouted, new clusters appeared, giving us hope for a modest harvest.
On the evening of July 24, another hailstorm struck, this time affecting the entire Lugana area. The anomaly here was the size of the hailstones, which reached diameters of 10 cm or more. As a result, there will be no Lugana Selva nor Lugana Riserva Menasasso from the 2023 vintage. To ensure the highest quality and longevity, we decided to use the Lugana grapes we managed to save for the fresher version, and therefore did not produce the more age-worthy Lugana wines.
Despite everything, there were still satisfactions in this vintage, including the Tre Bicchieri from Gambero Rosso for Campo del Soglio San Martino della Battaglia, our beloved Tuchì.
2022
Hot and dry year, the first year that the pond in front of the winery was without water. The vine works well under stress, so the quality of the grapes was not damaged by the lack of water. We started the harvest on August 25 with the delicate Tuchì and finished it on October 6, about ten days earlier than usual. The wines from the 2022 vintage are the first to be released with the SQNPI certification, sustainable quality. To learn more about the SQNPI certification, click here.
2020
2020 will also be memorable for the weather conditions that accompanied the life of our grapes.
The wonderful spring gifted us with a generous bloom (bees did an excellent job!), which, at the beginning of summer, showcased the first perfectly formed clusters, leading towards an evolution that was immediately promising in terms of health and abundance. This prompted us to lighten the vines by reducing excessive production in order to favor a better qualitative yield.
We never had to irrigate the vineyards, as the rainfall provided the right balance for the vines, allowing the fruit to mature properly.
However, the beautiful summer unfortunately brought three significant hailstorms that struck our vineyards. The most severe of these occurred at 3:20 PM on August 29, with an impressive display of nature's power.
All of our vineyards were affected, reducing production by about 20% on average.
Fortunately, the weather conditions immediately following the storms were wonderful, allowing the plants to heal their wounds, and the damaged grapes to dry out without impacting the quality.
The harvest was completed on October 6.
The final result exceeded our expectations, leading to extremely fresh and refined wines, with very clear varietal expressions.
Most of these wines will be released in the coming years, but already by the spring of 2021 it will be possible to begin experiencing this memorable 2020 vintage with the Lugana San Vigilio and the Chiaretto San Donino.
As you will taste from the first wines of 2020, this is a vintage that has allowed us to express the accents we consider most important.
2018
We are proud to announce that our hundredth harvest wines are leaving the cellar.
Our hundredth harvest is among the best ever, we are happy to celebrate it with you.
2017
1917-2017 a century of harvests
This is the year of our family's hundredth harvest.
One century which has seen 4 generations committed to wine making through a growing awareness of its meaning and the responsibility behind it.
Along this century we've done our best to leave the most positive and light traces, paying our tribute to protecting its culture, heritage, landscape, environment, identity and people.
We wish to keep hosting you at Selva Capuzza for a long time to go, in the very heart which has been hosting this story and which will host its future.
2016
is the year of the 30th birthday of our agriturismo-restaurant ( the very first license of all the area/region): we start now to offer our wines combined with typical local dishes.
99 means that only one year is left to celebrate one century of wine making.
Evolution. Change. More beautiful features in the near future.
