The Colle Arfuso journal
News
from the field
Here I write what actually happens between the vineyard, the olive grove and the cellar — and the guides I wish I had read myself, before learning everything by getting it wrong.
Front page
The label, the nose, the mouth, the myths to drop and the truth about price. A guide that holds even if you then buy somewhere else — in fact, especially if you buy somewhere else.
Read the articleBeing written · between one pruning and the next
The next
stories
The longest day of the year
What a family harvest is really like: six in the morning, air that smells of wet earth, and purple hands until the evening.
To prune is to decide
Every winter cut is a bet on the summer. What I look at with the secateurs in my hand and the bare vineyard in front of me.
Sixty days on the racks
The Passito is born of waiting: the grapes drying in the first-floor room, just as in grandpa Pietro’s day.
Want to read them as soon as they come out?
The best stories
are lived
The journal tells. The jeep shows. If one of these stories has caught your interest, the next chapter is read among the vines, with a glass in your hand.
