In winter, you begin to prune the screws and, in this period, completing the job with the ligature. We prune the plant to Guyot: are removed from the plant all the old branches except one, a year old, called "head of the fruit, the branch that will provide the bulk of production in the current year. The number gems left in the fruiting varies from plant to plant: in our Dolcetto vineyards to leave about 6 buds, 7 / 8 and 9 at the Barbera and Nebbiolo Brachet, head over to a fruit is left on the fundamental lives a spur from which will spring a branch that will be used next year as the head of a fruit reopening it the production cycle.
Returning to the binding, it is gently twist the branch that will give rise to the fruit, linking it to the wire, placed horizontally: it is a job that must be handmade and must be very careful not to break the branches that are bent. In the past the wicker was a string of plant-wide circulation (in Piedmont "Goreti"), made from willow - very tough plant that prefers moist soil -; were collected in winter, stored in a cool place and immersed in water before 'use to increase elasticity now have been replaced by metal and plastic ties, with the aid of a rapid binder.
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