This year, Russiz Superiore is once again awarded by Giovanni Bigot, who assigns 90 points to the "Sauvignon Relais" vineyard 🏅
"Even in difficult vintages, every wine region has areas with natural potential that the Bigot Index can highlight. The vineyards capable of distinguishing themselves testify to the ability of humans, of farmers, to adapt by finding agronomic solutions and producing great wines despite adversity." These are the words of Giovanni Bigot, founder and owner of Perleuve company and creator of the Bigot Index, which evaluates 9 indicators (production, leaf surface area, ratio between leaves and production, grape health, cluster type, water stress, vigor, biodiversity and microorganisms, and vine age) to classify the best vineyards based on quality potential.
This year, 62 vineyards have reached the highest quality peaks, in a list emerged after analyzing 1,400 total plots, distributed across various Italian regions, Slovenia, Cyprus, and Macedonia.
"The Bigot Index confirms itself as an excellent tool to identify vineyards with a distinctive natural vocation. It's interesting to note how some vineyards confirm themselves over the years, thus outlining the wine areas that we could define, in the French manner, as crus. The optimal combination of the 9 agronomic factors - explains Giovanni Bigot - is rare, so much so that only 5% of the vineyards examined last year managed to achieve a score equal to or higher than 90 points, also due to the difficult weather conditions that affected the entire Italian territory and the Mediterranean, testing the abilities of winemakers to maintain high-quality standards."
The award ceremony will take place at Vinitaly 2024.
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