{"id":6592,"date":"2025-09-01T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidevignato.it\/en\/?p=6592"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:21:12","slug":"wind-driven-hail-an-entire-season-damaged-in-20-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidevignato.it\/en\/2025\/09\/01\/wind-driven-hail-an-entire-season-damaged-in-20-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind-driven hail: an entire season damaged in 20 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday 2nd August, at 10.40 am, a <strong>powerful rainstorm<\/strong> occured above the hills of Gambellara and Soave. Hail, wind and intense rain caused bad damage: just imagine that <strong>70 ml of rain<\/strong> fell in only 20 minutes! Unfortunately, <strong>our vineyards have been strongly damaged<\/strong> as well. In some areas the vines lost even their leaves, in other areas there are still some grape bunches, but not more than 20% of the entire season. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We immediately have tried to help the vines, as much as possible, <strong>with natural products to help them cicatrize<\/strong> the damage. During the last days the plants were inactive, they\u2019re beginning to work again now and soon we\u2019ll understand what we\u2019ll manage to save.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidevignato.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/grandine.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidevignato.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/grandine.png 851w, https:\/\/www.davidevignato.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/grandine-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidevignato.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/grandine-768x284.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those who produce wine without buying grapes from others, such as us, the problem is important when this kind of events happen. Although we have an insurance, <strong>our value is in the final product:<\/strong> the wine. Insurance only pays you \u201cthe amount\u201d of grape you have lost, so in our specific case it\u2019s just a minimum part of the final product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This extreme event \u2013 not so infrequent in the last few years \u2013 reminds us that <strong>our work, strictly connected to nature, is not easy at all and being able to harvest the fruits of an entire season is not predictable.<\/strong> Sometimes conditions are good and the satisfaction is well repaid, some other times you need to be more careful, patient and do your best to produce the best wine you can. We\u2019re strongly motivated and, as usual, <strong>we\u2019ll do our best.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 2nd August, at 10.40 am, a powerful rainstorm occured above the hills of Gambellara and Soave. 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