June 2012

I just bottled Martin 2010 (last Wednesday) and today had the first public tasting with clients-friends from Chicago and I am very pleased...of course needs more time in the bottle, at least a month, but the caracter is there!

Spring is coming....

Dear all,
we are slowly coming out of the winter, the days are getting longer, and the air milder.
The vineyard is all tidy, well pruned, waiting to blossom.
I start to receive emails of people asking me to come and visit and taste the wine.
Martin 2009 is practically finished, I dont' sell it anymore to new clients but keep the few bottles for the previous clients.
In a month or so the 2010 will be released. In a way I can't wait, even if it is always a little stress: how will people like it? I always watch at people's faces when they taste the new vintage, trying to read informations...
Some moments are hard to describe!
Right now - I mean in this minute - we are placing new pebbles in the courtyard. It will be so pretty after. It needed it. And my son is happy, it will be great to play soccer...(poor roses!).
My yoga path goes on, and am very pleased to receive incouragements.
Since a lot of you ask me where to go to eat, sleep, etc, in this area, am going to open another blog just for this.
If you have ideas (places you have been and really liked and wish to share) please don't hesitate to write to me. It will be a good service.
All my best -- this is all from Resta!

SNOW!

Two days ago we had a lot of snow, unfortunally it is already melting, but seems like it will snow again.

I post few pictures that my daughter Clara took (she is 16).

Someone asked me if the snow affects the vineyard, and I said that snow is very good for the soil, because brings water in a slow way, when rain instead shifts away quicker. So snow gives a deeper hydratation to the ground.

Am starting to have some contacts for the coming season, I wonder how it will be, am looking forward having again people here.

In the meantime I keep going on with my yoga studies. Second year. If all goes well, at the end of June I will become an Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Teacher.

I hope I will pass, it is so difficult to study again at this age! Plus, I have to learn sanskrit...

Wish me well.

I do the same to you, all over the world!

Celebrating a marriage - October 2011

These are pictures I adore. Now that I have a little bit more of time, I like to look thru the images of last year. So many things happened...like this one...a friend asked me to "marry" a couple staying in his agriturismo, with a ritual, nothing legal - they have been already married officially in the US - and when he asked me to find someone, I thought that I could do it...so, with the help of a couple of friends that do this regularly, using their formula and making it more mine, I managed very well and felt very comfortable.

It was a great chance to be so close to a couple full of love. I had to control myself not to cry when I got really emotional!

They seemed to have enjoyed very much, and now I know that I can do this as well, so who knows, maybe someone coming to Fattoria Resta will want to celebrate something...how beautiful!

I am back after a year! I can't believe it.



This time in English - I forgot that the Blog was all in English...
But I am a lousy translater!

This is Nick Anderer, the chef of Maialino, the restaurant in NY. He came to visit, I gave him my apron, he went back to NY and took this picture with it and his staff. Love it.

Just a symbol of the past year, full of exchanges and wonderful memories.

Thanks to all the beautiful people that came to Fattoria Resta, and to the ones that came back. That is really the sign of success for me!

Promise to write before next year...

Un anno!

E' già passato un anno dal mio ultimo post...e quante cose sono successe!
Intanto una bellissima notizia: il Martin 2009 ha ricevuto 91/100 da James Suckling.
Il che mi fa moltissimo piacere.

Poi, tornando indietro, è stata una bellissima annata, ricca di visite, direi da tanti paesi diversi.
L'inverno scorso abbiamo ristrutturato una stanza, che era stata una stalla, dove ho organizzato cene e piccoli eventi.

A fianco del vino ho continuato con l'altra mia grande passione, lo yoga.
Ad Agosto ho anche praticato insieme a Trudie, la moglie di Sting.

Ma la cosa che mi fa tanto piacere è appunto di aver conosciuto persone molto speciali, molte delle quali sono tornate, e, soprattutto, di aver venduto quasi tutto il vino!
A questo punto concentro le mie energie sul 2010, che uscirà verso Aprile-Maggio.

Ad Aprile andrò a New York e a Washington per trovare alcuni clienti, insieme a Winebow Inc.

Non aspetterò un altro anno a riscrivere!