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Meet Renato Fenocchio

August 15, 2008

The video clip is from our standard 3 hour interview with each farmer. Renato and his wife Milva spend a ridiculous amount of time in their vineyards. In fact, their grapes are so good that they often sell excess to Bruno Giacosa. In their vineyards, they perform over half a million (528,000) tasks by hand from January to October. That is amazingly hard work for two people. But you can taste the results in the quality of their wines.

No subtitles edited yet, but here's the translation and then watch the video. 

Renato says, "You calculate...more or less from pruning to harvest, in a normal year, we have 11 to 13 manual operations per plant." I ask, "You have 11 hectares- how many plants is that?" After a brief consultation with Milva, Renato explains that they have approximately forty-four thousand (44,000) plants.

 


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