INCREDIBLE Italian Winery Tour in Orvieto, Italy 🇮🇹

INCREDIBLE Italian Winery Tour in Orvieto, Italy 🇮🇹

We are in Orvieto and Orvieto is quite famous for white wine production, this is   the Palazzone, the the medieval Palace, the palace was made   in 1295 so we can use it it’s really it’s really fresh we got a nice pool over here Palazzone means paradise

I don’t know that’s what Kei said but  uh we have just arrived at a winery so Makoto san  has arranged for us to do a little bit of wine  tasting it’s uh pretty early it’s only uh 9:00  

In the morning got a nice foggy day out here it’s beautiful so I guess we’re doing some morning drinking all out this way it’s just absolutely   beautiful hopefully we get a good view even though it is really foggy hello

Nice to meet you. Palazzone is the name of the building that is here the old   building name just the name. the name of this place. okay. the name of it doesn’t mean paradise? big big Palace ah big Palace so it does have a meaning

Okay maybe we’ll get a a tour yes  all right I think we’re going to   get a good tour of the winery  here how to make wine ah nice should i speak in Italian or English? Englih… perfecto

Okay so uh we are in Orvieto and Orvieto is quite famous for the white wine production we produce mostly   white wines also as more production of red uh and a really small production of sweet wine   um orto typical white wine is made by different grapes uh actually we use four grapes to produce Orvieto

In the past, Orvieto was a field blend so the  farmer used to mix all the different grapes in   the same Vineyards having just one Harvest uh the modern Orvieto from the ’90s uh is a blend of wines so we produce the single grape wine during the during the Harvest and then we blend together the wines

To uh to build the different labels. um usually in general so in in Winter after the harvest, um the vinification is quite simple. uh  we think that the quality of wine is due to the soil  The Vineyard uh the place the vinification  is something to give a style of the wine

Is not the quality of the wine uh so we use uh just steel container not Oak for the for the whites. and the vinification is really simple uh the typical white wine vinification that means in um uh pressing the  

Grapes uh with those two uh pressing uh this is a softer one this is better for the for the whites   there because it’s a Pneumatic it’s is softer is more gently uh the other one is a mechanical press  

So it’s really strong but it’s really important  for us for the sweet wine because in for the   sweet wine we have a really dry uh grapes so we need a lot of pressure to extract the the small  

Quantity of juice that there is inside the grapes so uh we use mostly this press the other one is   for uh small production or the sweet wine um we obtain the juice and the juice go down in the cellar   

Um the red wine uh for the red wine um we need to have a maturation so a skin contact between   the juice and the skin uh so we push uh all the grapes um in that that tanks um in that vault so  

We can have a maturation and we plung every day manually the the the cap of uh of skin that gr   up so it’s a really manual vinification for the  reds and uh we continue in in the cellar this

Way you see the reds are made from over here yeah in this tank you know a little bit bigger um so we can we go up and we plunge uh go up there manually and punch them down  

Huh exactly I guess now is not the time to make it this season no because the fermentation is   already finished so we uh we move the the red wine in the cellar now now we have to move uh  

To move the red wine from the steel container to the Oak because for the red wine we use barrels   the bar and so now is the period when we have a turnover of the Vintage in in the in the barrels

Okay this is the Palazzone. wow. the the medieval  Palace palace was made in 1295 uh is a historical it’s it’s particular because the  the architecture is the is the typical medieval   architecture that you can find in Orvieto in  the city center so it’s quite particular a  

A big Palace in but in the countryside.  what type of person would live here?    at that time at the beginning was built like  a hostel for the pilgrims that were walking   to Rome because um was built by Bonifatius the 8.  Bonifatius the 8 was the first pope to establish  

The jubileum the Catholic jubileum in Rome in 1300 so probably he decided to build a hostel   because this Valley was full of people that  were working in to Rome, so it served as a   place just to sleep and stay and wow was was  a Locanda, in in in in Italian we say Locanda

So a place where you can stop uh uh eat and and sleep so we restore at the beginning of 2000 now   we have seven suites we have a small restaurant so you can still stay here yeah wow absolutely

It’s really foggy today it is very foggy huh you can’t see much yeah you have to imagine the city   over over there yeah you can’t see anything over here this area is the valley the main Valley of  

Orvieto north to North from from north to south is um is a marine region so it’s really uh is   a sedimentary soil really calcario uh really  good for the structure and the minerality of   the wine um but there is another area over Orvieto so the Southwest part that is uh higher um that  

Is volcanic mhm because orto has um a marine origin but uh on the sedimentary uh material   uh just came down the volcanic material coming from the B Lake yeah so in Orvieto we have volcanic   soil and marine soil so it’s really particular  also for this what we try to do is to that is not

For but please wow huge um this is the cellar so uh steel container uh in in this period we have uh uh different uh   grapes and uh wines from different grapes  and uh and also different vineyards so we  

Try to select uh because um our vineyard is  like a puzzle so we can find every grapes   in every vineyards so it’s really complicated  and we try to select for example uh grekeco(?) on the bottom of the hill is really different  compared to grekeko? on the top so we select  

The different grapes to produce different wines and then we can select in the in the during the   blend we can select the best wine for the for the best label this is uh this is the way and   um the juice is um we clean the juice usually with decantation so we wait uh two days all  

The dirty uh materials go down and we from the from the upper valve we we we transfer the the   juice we put a yeast to ferment the wine and um and in 20 days 25 days you have the wine  

Wow then we move the wine we taste the wine and we decide what to do so if to uh move just the   leaves or to transfer the wine I mean it’s uh and uh and we arrive in uh in December in January and  

We start to taste the wine and to make the the blendings the the the samples we uh we make um   small samples uh in small bottles and uh in  the afternoon and the next morning we taste  

The wine and uh and so on for two weeks  three weeks and we decide all the all the wines this is uh naturally controlled yeah and uh in summer is a little bit warmer I mean the the cellar feels a little bit  the different of temperature but not so much  

I mean it’s uh because we are underground  so it’s quite cold it’s quite fresh    in the winter? in the winter is is like this oh  yes it’s like this I mean okay and uh uh    it’s important for the white wines to control the temperature during the fermentation

We have a refrigerator uh but the old system that we still continue to use is this one uh oh coming coming from up there water water outside the tank uhhuh we are  lucky because we have a lot of water coming from the woods

We have natural sources of water in the wood and it’s all water that is coming   down uh from the top of the hill, so we can use it. it’s really it’s really fresh to control   the temperature 17 18 celsius degree, is perfect is a old technique but it works it works  

A part of the water is recycled for the for the garden okay so we can use a part of there that’s good how full are these right now? ah it’s  quite full yeah yeah all our everything is full here and uh yeah I mean uh when you build a seller you have always to make  

Some space more, because if you want to  move the wine you need a empty container   you know so um in we produce about 100,000, 120,000 bottle per year, and I mean the cellar can store a little bit more yeah but I mean it’s just to to have more space

Yeah and here we have the similar to the olive oil I imagine, uh as far  as labeling and yeah this is the filler machine   uhhuh this is the machine for the cork uhhuh this is the machine for the screw cup, we really like  

Also the screw cap especially in the export market we use screw cap but also in Italy something is is   changing and uh and all the label part we bottle all our production here uh with our with our  

Employee and our all your machines yeah not all the wine is labeled uh but a part is store just uh   without the label uh with yeah without the label with a naked bottle um because uh we have we have  

To wait the order from the export Market because uh we have to put the correct back label to every bottle I mean if the wine go in United States there is a different lab for everything   yeah and this is a storage and yeah and then the storage this is the storage for the uh package wine

How to they pick the grapes? by hand? how do they… like the process of actually picking the grapes? by humans by machines? uh we use for the   80% machine okay yeah but. I guess the machine can’t pick them all so you have to go back and  

No the machine pick everything. really okay. so you have to be good during the season because if you   have a really bad grapes the machine Harvest that grapes so you the machine doesn’t select   uh that that a human being can do it you  know uh but uh but the quality of the grapes  

Is is good I mean uh the machine is really good especially in difficult season when you have to   you have to harvest really fast for example 2014 was really rainy es was rainy, especially in July   and and also in September during the Harvest so we did uh all the Harvest in 15 days and usually we  

Need 30 40 days so the dou the double of grapes every day so you need the machine for sure yeah   yeah yeah so probably a stressful time too yeah yeah yeah and also it’s not easy to find people  

You know to work in the in the vineyard so to to to harvest a good quantity of grapes you need a   lot of people a lot of manual labor sorry a lot of just people work in the machines or working  

Just yeah we we have five people uhhuh every year, all the year and uh I take the key we   go to see the. okay no later are we going  to be able to go inside Palazzone? yeah we can  

Yeah yeah okay I I think Locanda today is closed but we can we can enter I’d love to have a look inside wow so those are the bar so uh to store the  the red wine um for the red wine we have uh  

Most sanes and Cabernet um so new bar like this is really uh this is a new one uh   this is a old one so we mix different age of bar to have also different expression of of the wine  

And um we keep the red wine one year in the barik and then in November December we we have   a turnover of of the Vintage uh that’s it for  example Camp de guardiano that is our Orvieto uh selection age two years in the bottle before the release so they would sit over there for two  

Years yeah what is the longest aged wine that you have uh two years of campano yeah is it one   of those things like the longer like some wines are age for many many years right yeah does that  

Mean it’s a better quality necessarily no it’s  not a better quality it’s just a style yeah a style   Orvieto can age really really well with Campo Guardiano we have also um all vintages price list   I mean so we we keep the bottle for more years and we release the the those bottles uh now we  

Have from 2011 uh so is a 12 years old wine mhm wow and in the corner we have all the history of Palazzone so we keep all the vintages all the labels from the 80s till now so there is the  

Production of say how old is Palazzone the first official label was 1984 84 but my father start   to produce wine at the end of the 70s beginning  of the 80s he was young and he start to produce  

Some wine for the for the friends for the family and uh the the first official label is 84 okay 84   and we have all the vintages over there can  we see sorry can we check it yeah I it’s closed now here we have some problems of the machine it’s  

Close we have all the all the labels all  the vintages are 9,000 bottles 10 10,000 bottles, Orvieto can age very well. kinda like a time capsule huh? yeah exactly cool and uh that’s it okay   this is the cellar, nothing special, just a  cellar. you want to to see inside the Locanda

Sure they want to see too what are you busy with most this time of year? see like what are you busy with today or this time of year this time of year we are busy mostly   in the commercial business, I mean this is the period of the wine guide the festival some event  

So we are way around uh I stay in the cellar  for the for the harvets till uh till November   Then I then I’m done I guess this is holiday  season 2 no it’s not holiday not yet no holiday  

Is um uh, for the winery in Christmas holiday. Christmas okay so a little early yeah wow beautiful looks like a scene out of a  movie if you see the grass, what is this? is wild pig wild pig during the night oh the you know inoshishi? wild boar

Yeah yeah they they are terrible tear up the uh the ground and uh cause   this I’m sure it was worse too you  fixed it a little bit yeah yeah yeah yeah is that a huge problem the wild boars  here yeah yeah there are a lot really we  

Have to put the electricity fence around the vineyards   usually in August before the before  the ripening can you hunt them uh   just the selection hunters, we got a  nice pool over here yes of course beautiful and they’re super aggressive too yeah yeah yeah

This is the Locanda, so I said to you that the day of the 24th here this is a drink oh today   no drinking no just a tour no okay okay we’re not doing morning drinking Today this was the old Palazzone, wow a family um a farmer family used to live in the Palazzone mhm   because when my grandparents arried in Orvieto in 1969 in Italy, there was   there was still a little bit of mezzadria. mezzadria was a contract between the farmers and  

The owner of the property and the the farmer uh used to work for the production of something and   the owner um had the 51% of the production and the 49 for the for the family of the farmer and  

Um so was like a slave system a little bit and uh and then the low the low change in Italy and   uh but in that period a family still um was was living here. those arches is I mean the arch are  

The original one and uh and there how many rooms upstairs uh six and one over there one we have a   one handicap people can reserve those and come out here and stay how’s that work yeah uh you  

Can reserve on internet online and uh is the room open uh no I no okay I don’t know which room is   available so that’s okay this is my uh Granda Angelo the father of Jovani uh with with Maria   my my grandmother they bought all the property in 1969 he start to plant some Vineyards MH and  

Uh and my father start to produce some wine and with my uncle they built the the cellar and uh so so is temp the weather is not  so good today it’s a very night night is the East Coast mhm so Boston New York Washington DC Florida So speaking of  

That I mean is there a big difference in the  production of wine say in the Napa Valley in   in California and here like is it mostly  similar process or like what’s what makes   it unique or different here uh The Grapes the climate okay and that just the tradition also  

But the making of it is more or less similar  yeah more or less similar yeah of course the   wine production at the end if you don’t use particular technique is that one okay   you can use a different kind of Oak you can use a different yeast you can but at the end  

The the the big difference is the grapes and uh because in Italy we have a lot of local grapes   uh in California they use mostly International grapes and um and also the the culture the the   tradition of making wine is different I  mean it’s different the philosophy of the  

Producer you know so uh and uh the climate the area is California is really dry really aid but the landscape ape is quite similar yeah the landscape rolling hills what was your name? Petro, Nick. nice  to meet you thank you for the tour thank

You Peter Peter Peter Peter okay Peter Peter  Peter all right I think we’re going to come   back later for a wine I don’t know when  24th I guess I just follow along hey we’re   going all right let’s go thank you Peter  thank you so much all right bye bye see  

You again thank you thank you so okay  we’re not doing the wine tasting today   we’re going to come back for that and so  maybe I can just add that on to this video so

Today we are getting a private tour of the beautiful Palazzone Winery in Orvieto, Italy. This is a long tour with tons of information, so I tried to make it a little easier for you if you’d like to skip around by tagging everything we discussed.

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00:00 Welcome to Palazzone Winery
01:46 Start of Tour
02:14 How Orvieto White Wine is Made
02:46 Single Grape Wine
03:04 Why Vinification is simple but IMPORTANT
04:02 Why this machine is important for sweet wine
04:42 What is necessary for red wine
05:28 Where the red wine is made
06:23 This is the Palazzone!
06:38 Architecture of Palazzone
06:55 Why Palazzone was built
07:33 What is a LOCANDA?
08:19 Why This Soil Here is Good For Grapes
09:26 The White Wine Cellar
09:55 The Complex Grape Selection Process
10:58 Cleaning the Juice And Fermentation of the wine
11:32 Tasting the wine
12:19 Controlling the temperature of the cellar
13:00 Why it’s important to control the temperature during fermentation
13:26 How they control the temperature
14:18 How full are the cellars?
14:33 How to build a cellar
15:11 The bottle filler machines
15:42 Why they prefer the screw caps
16:11 Why not all the wine isn’t labeled
17:01 How do they pick the grapes? by hand?
17:27 Why the machine doesn’t select some grapes
18:05 2014 Crisis at Palazzone
18:41 Why it’s difficult to find people to work there
19:33 Inside the red wine cellar
19:49 What they have in red wine
20:38 Palazzone’s Orvieto Selection wine
21:01 Is longer-aged wine better?
21:45 All the old Palazzone-labeled wines
23:03 That it’s from the cellar
23:29 What are they busy with this time of year?
23:41 Wild Boar damage
31:52 Are wild boars a huge problem?
26:03 Inside the Palazzone Locanda
26:29 Picture of old Palazzone and interesting story
28:01 How many rooms are in the Locanda?
28:40 The first owners of Palazzone
29:24 Talkig differences in American and Italian wine
31:01 Big thanks to Palazzone and Peter for the wonderful tour!