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2021 Wine Bottling: Interesting News!

We are now completing the new vintages’ bottling. As always, after a long wait, the work which has been done in the field and in the winery has now been brought to perfection during the wine-bottling stage. 

The white “Classics” and Piwi Wines obtained from resistant grape varieties are now ready to go. These are fresh and intense wines on the nose, rounded and pleasant on the palate. Such characteristics have emerged thanks to the vintage’s climate, especially after the sunny summer days and the considerable thermal gaps. Harvest has been carried on between the end of August and the first weeks of September. 

After destemming and free-run soft pressing, fermentation has been carried on in steel tanks. After a few months of aging, wine-bottling has been conducted recently.

The Red Classics and Piwi Wines from resistant grape varieties have finally been bottled. After prolonged aging, multiple pumping-overs and delestages, 2019 vintage is now in the bottle. 2019 was a complicated vintage, especially in spring, due to low temperatures and heavy rain. But the warmer and dry months of July and August boosted grape maturation toward a good quality harvest. 

In general, these red wines are fruity, slightly tannic, with undergrowth hints and ripen red fruit aftertaste. Astringent notes are quite evident in Cabernet Franc and Refosco while Merlot stands out for its elegance. 

2021’s new entry, to be added to Arconi and Limine, is a Piwi white wine obtained from restant grape varieties. 

Feltro Bianco

An elegant and innovative wine, with fruity apple and white fruit scents combined with pleasant spicy notes. Fresh, medium bodied wine with pronounced acidity and soft hay aftertaste. Ideal as aperitif, it can be paired with vegetable dishes and fish carpaccio.

Terre di Ger new e-Shop starts with Giro d’Italia

This year’s Giro d’Italia is back to its natural springtime collocation in May’s colorful and warmer days.

We are back too! And we are supporting our partners BORA-hansgrohe: the squad is ready to start, with Peter Sagan as the team captain and all the Italian team members including Matteo Fabbro, Daniel Oss, Giovanni Aleotti and Cesare Benedetti.

Great News!

This year we are also launching our brand-new e-commerce website, featuring many labels designed in cooperation with  BORA Cooking System and their best Chefs!

All subscribers to Terre di Ger’s newsletter will get 10% discount on all “Bora Edition” products until 30 May 2021.

Follow us on our social media platforms to get fresh news about the next three weeks of Giro d’Italia. There will be also a special contest and a take-over with the team during the Cortina stage, riding across our vineyards and our winery.

The first 5 subscribers with a minimum order of 70 € will be awarded with the beautiful photo book Boys’n’ Bikes.

Terre di Ger in the Dolomites

Our new, fully organic vineyards are taking shape in Feltre, in the Dolomites. After the Pinot Noir vineyard, we are now completing our farm with a new Solaris vineyard, the most famous PIWI variety suitable for mountain climate. Solaris kissed by the sun isPIWI International’s slogan. On San Fermo hill, in the village of Villaga, the sun shines and warms the whole farm’s 4 ha since early morning.

Solaris vines are vigorous, strong, and suitable to mountain climate. The vineyard planting layout is 2,80X1,20 m. The wine obtained from this grape variety is characterized by refined flower and fruit scent, tropical fruit and citrus aromas enriched by a pleasant acidity. 

We picked Solaris grape variety in order to complete our selection of resistant grape varieties ranging from white grape Bronner, Sauvigner Gris, Soreli, Sauvignon Kretos and  Sauvignon Rythos to red grape Merlot Khorus and Merlot Kanthus, Cabernet Eidos and Cabernet Prior.

Pinot Noir from the Dolomites is the most elegant and noble wine which could not be missing from our wine farm.  It is as if the sun kissing Solaris grapes went through Pinot Noir’s colour, whose clearnes is the most distinctive feature. The wine’s aromas include vegetable scents, mint and dill, red fruits such as cherry and strawberry. 

Step by step we will be telling you about flowering, ripening and harvest.

From good care for the vineyards a good wine is born: grapevine pruning at Terre di Ger’s

Grapevine pruning is the most ‘engaging’ phase in the grapevine’s life cycle, when both past experience and creativity are combined together. 

The selection of vine shoots and spurs for the coming year, the training system, the amount of production and the expected grape quality…. this is the time of the year when the most important decisions must be taken.

These are cold and short days, but very busy days indeed. Life is starting again from here, after a few months of rest during which the vineyard has restored itself. This process is known as “agostamento”, a perpetual and constant becoming: spurs lignify and become shoots, shoots will give birth to new buds which in turn will become fruitful sprouts and so on.

Grapevine-pruning ends right before the so called weeping of the vine. It is as if grapevines are urging time now. That is why pruning represents the most important and evocative time of the year. 

Each grapevine variety and each wineyard have their own distinctive traits. In our farm, the most used training system is Guyot (the double Guyot, typical in the Friuli area). The most vigorous grapevines are trained after the Sylvoz system, the classical permanent cordon with renewed arches.

PIWI El Masut wine and a new recipe by Ivana Frank

His majesty the resistant red wine, sweet and refined Merlot Khorus and Khantus and a special recipe designed to enhance its flavors. a Well Done! to Chef Ivana Frank and to her innovative and fresh combinations of tastes. Here is a special recipe to be kept in mind.

Steak And Sweet Potato Fries With Healthy Barbecue Sauce


INGREDIENTS
For two people

  • 600 g sweet potatoes
  • 2 sirloin steaks, 200 g each
  • 1 tbsp cornflour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • Cooking oil
  • Fresh parsley
  • Salt and pepper to taste

For the barbecue sauce

  • 120 g passata
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 4 tbsp maple syrup
  • 1 level tsp Cajun spice mix

Peel the sweet potatoes, cut into large fries (approx. 1 cm thick by 8 – 10 cm long), then wash under cold water. Preheat the Tepan to 210 degrees. Place the wet fries in a bowl, add the cornflour and salt and shake well. Scatter the fries onto the Tepan, leaving a little room for the steaks. Place the steaks on the Tepan and, for medium, turn when 3 clear beads of pink-coloured juice have appeared on the steak’s surface. Wait for another 3 clear beads of juice to appear, then remove from the Tepan and leave to rest. Meanwhile, occasionally turn the fries. To make the sauce, add all the ingredients to a small pan and briefly bring to the boil. Done. The fries are ready when they are golden brown and soft in the middle. Season the steak with salt and pepper and serve with the sauce and fries. Garnish with chopped parsley.

Terre di Ger’s Limine Bianco paired with a new recipe by Chef Ivana Frank

This is one of the best expressions of a white wine obtained from resistant grape varieties. A true Friuli Region wine, coming from the territory. Soreli grapes, a strong and structured variety obtained from Tocai grape variety, are the main component of Limine. The Sauvignon Kretos grapes adds aromaticity and balance to the wine’s taste. Chef Ivana Frank has created the following recipe which wonderfully brings together taste and flavor both on the plate and on the nose.

Prawns on chinese vegetables with cashew nuts and coriander

INGREDIENTS:
Per due persone

  • 400 g wild or organic prawns (cleaned and shelled)
  • 2 peppers – red, approx. 300 g
  • 150 g pak choi
  • 1 small red onion
  • 1 handful cashew nuts
  • 7 tbsp soy sauce, 3 tbsp honey,1 tsp cornstarch
  • Half a chilli pepper
  • Fresh coriander to garnish

PREPARATION
Preheat the Tepan to 210 degrees. Cut the peppers into bite-size pieces, roughly chop the pak choi and slice the onions. Place in a bowl. Fry the vegetables until al dente (5 minutes). Meanwhile stir together the soy sauce, honey and cornstarch in a small bowl. Finely chop the chilli pepper and add. Season the prawns with salt and add to the vegetables together with the cashew nuts. Stir in well and deglaze with the sauce. Fry for another minute. Serve the vegetables on plates and place the prawns on top. Garnish with fresh coriander.

Discover more about Chef Ivana Frank’s recipes on BORA.com.
Discover more about our Limine Bianco obtained from resistant grape varieties.

Merry Christmas and let’s start again!

The love for cycling meets our job perfectly: constantly in contact with nature, in the vineyards and orchards. The rider’s job is somehow similar to being a farmer. He works alone in every season, adapting to the environment and being part of it.

We’ve happily welcomed Peter Sagan and Team Bora-hansgrohe squad. We have spent a relaxing and easy day away from the media’s attention, in Terre di Ger’s vineyards and in the winery, chatting as friends.

It was great to spend time together and we would like to thank Ralph Denk for this opportunity.

We seize the opportunity to wish you all a Happy Christmas, in the hope that everything will start again at best.

Gianni and Robert Spinazzè

Arconi Bianco and a new recipe by Chef Ivana Frank

Our discovering of PIWI wines through Chef Ivana Frank’s recipes brings us to the Arconi Bianco. The great Sauvignon Kretos aroma and the structure of Soreli, a Friuli variety by its own nature, are mixed together. The Arconi is sapiently coupled to this new recipe that brings us fantasy and creativity both in the plate and in the wine glass.

Thanks to Bora Cooking System’s chef Ivana Frank, we have paired Arconi to a recipe that is able to exalt the wine’s characteristics. 

Aubergine Towers With Goat’s Cheese, Pistachios, Mint And Dried Figs

INGREDIENTS
For two people

  • 1 aubergine
  • 150 g soft goat’s cheese
  • 1 tbsp yogurt
  • 30 g chopped pistachios
  • 4 – 5 dried figs
  • 3 sprigs of mint
  • ½ organic lemon – zest and juice
  • Olive oil, cooking oil (e.g. cooking olive oil), salt and pepper

PREPARATION

Preheat the Tepan to 220 degrees then smear with cooking oil using the spatula. Cut the aubergine into approx. ½ cm thick slices and place on the Tepan. Season with plenty of salt. Fry the slices of aubergine on both sides until soft and golden brown. Meanwhile, grate the zest of half a lemon and coarsely chop the mint leaves and figs. Add to a small bowl with the pistachios and goat’s cheese and stir well with yogurt, a dash of lemon juice and a generous pinch of salt and pepper.
Construct the towers as follows: start with a slice of aubergine, then add 1 tbsp of creamy cheese and yogurt mixture followed by another slice of aubergine. Repeat until each tower has three layers of aubergine and three layers of creamy mixture. Garnish the mixture on top with additional mint leaves and drizzle with a little olive oil.


Discover Ivana Frank’s recipes on BORA.com.
Discover more about our Arconi Bianco, visit our website.

PIWI wines and Ivana Frank’s recipes

PIWI wines obtained from resistant grape varieties are the best solution for echo-sustainability. They are new and modern wines, hybrids by nature and definition, with a bright future ahead.

Let’s start with Caliere Rosso, an elegant mid-structured red wine with red fruits scents, ideally paired both with meat and fish dishes.

Thanks to BORA’s chef Ivana Frank we have paired Caliere to a receipe that is able to express the best of the wine’s characteristics.

Radicchio with dry-cured grisons beef, walnuts and goat’s cheese

INGREDIENTS

For two people

  • 250 g radicchio head
  • 50 g dry-cured Grisons beef
  • 50 g walnut kernels
  • 80 g alpine goat’s cheese
    (or another firm goat’s cheese)
  • 4 – 5 sprigs of parsley

For the dressing

  • 200 ml rape seed oil
  • 200 ml cider vinegar
  • 1 level tsp pepper
  • 1 level tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp honey

PREPARATION

Preheat the Tepan to 200 degrees and drizzle with a little oil. Place on the dry-cured Grisons beef and fry until the slices are all crispy. Add the walnuts and fry briefly then remove from the Tepan. Meanwhile, remove the leaves from the radicchio, wash and tear into bite-size pieces. Whisk together all the ingredients for the dressing. Cut the goat’s cheese into cubes and roughly chop the parsley. Place the radicchio in a bowl and mix with the dressing. Garnish with the cheese, walnuts, crispy dry-cured Grisons beef and chopped parsley.

Find out more about Ivana Frank’s receipes on BORA.com.
Interested in Terre di Ger’s Caliere Rosso? Order it on our website.

E.V.O. Oil and Ivana Frank’s new recipe

Time to pick up olives in our olive grove in Maiolati Spontini, on the hills of Jesi: two hectares of Frantoio, Rosciola and Leccino olive varieties for our Terre di Ger E.V.O. Oil, a typical product of the Marches region in central Italy.

As soon as olive pressing is completed the new vintage will be ready and we’ll stay in touch to describe all its characteristics very soon. Meanwhile, let’s try a new recipe by Chef Ivana Frank of Bora Cooking System, a renowed German brand and Terre di Ger partner.

Ras el Hanout Spiced Saddle ef Lamb with Pea and Mint Houmous and Pomegranate

INGREDIENTS
For two people

  • Lamb saddle steaks, 150 – 200 g each
  • 100 g frozen peas
  • 100 g chickpeas from a jar
  • Dash of lemon juice
  • 3 – 4 sprigs of mint
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1 handful pomegranate seeds
  • Ras el hanout spice
  • Salt, pepper, olive oil

PREPARATION

Preheat the Tepan to 200 degrees. Brush the lamb saddle steaks with a little oil and generously season with the spice. Place on the hot Tepan and turn after 4 minutes. Meanwhile, bring a pan of well-salted water to the boil and blanch the peas for about 3 minutes. Strain and rapidly cool under cold running water. Add about two-thirds of the peas into a food processor together with the chickpeas, lemon juice, garlic clove, mint (leaves only!), 4 tbsp of olive oil and a level tsp of salt and pepper. Puree. Stir the remaining peas into the finished houmous. Remove the lamb from the Tepan, cut into slices as desired and season with salt. Divide the houmous onto plates, add the meat and garnish with pomegranate seeds and more mint.

Find out more about Ivana Frank’s receipes on BORA.com.
Interested in Terre di Ger EVO Oil? Order it on our website.

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