Reflections on a challenging year: our 2025

For the third year in a row, we experienced a “wet” growing season, which kept us very busy protecting the health of the grapes and rewarded us with excellent quantity and quality (the only exception being a Pinella vineyard on the Venda Mountain, sacrificed to botrytis).

But the work we do year after year is increasingly less agricultural. In the full accounting—productive, economic, emotional—of our 2025, external matters weigh more heavily than the internal affairs of the farm.

First among these are the inconclusive and exhausting relations with public institutions, lost in bureaucratic-digital worlds now far removed from ours: that of hillside agriculture, which in our view should remain complex, mixed, irregular and cautious, and thus ill-suited to schemes, constraints and standardizations decided far from the field.

Then there is a depressed and uncertain market, with a few strong last trends whose faltering momentum is tearing apart the wine culture we have seen grow, and helped build, over the past decades.

Yet the wine, in 2025, turned out well.

Marco Zanovello