{"id":6147,"date":"2021-08-14T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T20:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2023-01-10T11:22:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T10:22:14","slug":"a-few-bunches-but-good-the-green-harvest-of-the-carricante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/en\/a-few-bunches-but-good-the-green-harvest-of-the-carricante\/","title":{"rendered":"A few bunches but good: the green harvest of the Carricante"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The green harvest, which consists in the targeted thinning of the bunches of grapes, often practiced right from the setting, is a very ancient agricultural practice; while in the past it was opposed by winemakers, today instead, the thinning of the bunches is a fundamental and strategic intervention in the production of quality wines.<\/p>\n<p>This training practice, in fact, allows the vine to concentrate its resources on a smaller quantity of bunches so as to improve both the ripening and the quality of the concentration of the aromas in the remaining bunches.<\/p>\n<p>Carricante is also a variety that tends, as the name suggests in Sicilian dialect, to produce abundant bunches&#8230; for this reason the practice of the green harvest is very essential, not to extinguish its exuberance but to concentrate it at best in our wine.<\/p>\n<p>Observing every single plant and acting on the basis of its needs is a priority for us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6143 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_8236-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_8236-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_8236-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_8236-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_8236-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_8236-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_8236.jpg 1349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The green harvest, which consists in the targeted thinning of the bunches of grapes, often practiced right from the setting, is a very ancient agricultural practice; while in the past it was opposed by winemakers, today instead, the thinning of the bunches is a fundamental and strategic intervention in the production of quality wines. This<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/en\/a-few-bunches-but-good-the-green-harvest-of-the-carricante\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/massimolentsch.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}