The hilly vineyards of CASA BENNA^® have a surface of around 10 hectares and they are exposed in south-east. The grounds for the greatest part, are constituted by ferrallitic soil, they are red earths with friable stones, characterized by a pedological composition rather unhomogeneous.

When a vineyard is installed, along the rows, we left 30-40 metres opening.
This allows, in the harvesting, to easily separate the grapes according to the parameters of maturation and the characteristics of the same, and to press them in separate tubs.

It is enough to move for few meters to find different grapes and to get then different wines: some most proper for the aging, others more suitable to be drunk when young.

In CASA BENNA^® we will never abdicate this careful selection in the harvesting, that therefore it happens and it will manually happen always in small boxes.
A good harvesting is always daughter of a suitable terroir, that is surely here, thenks to favorable climatic factors and to correct harvesting operations.

The first one is the pruning, manually effected by Andrea that, for every single grapevine, cuts and individualizes the mature fruit and the spur of renovation.
The form of breeding is the "simple Guyot method", one of the most suitable to get grapes of quality.
After the pruning, the discards of pruning are picked up by Alessandro through a special rotopressing machine that picks up vine shoots.

The hay's rotoballs obtained, once dried, they are stabs one and in winter are burnt in a special boiler, heating so the main house and also producing warm water for the operations of cleaning and sanitization of the wine cellar.
The management of the soil, foresees a summer grassing, with frequent cuttings of the grass.
This practice, besides allowing a good timeliness of intervention in the phytosanitary treatments in case of rain, starts to produce healthier clusters, with smaller grapes and thicker peels, improving the quality of the grapes.

The firm follows the method of the "Integrated Struggle" concerning to the dispositions emanated by the Region Emilia Romagna that effect the REG. EEC 2078/92 and following changes, already from his first layout. The target consists in protecting the vegetation and the clusters from the fungal illnesses employing the least harmful phytomedicines, doing a rational and essential use of it and following careful plans of manuring.
In CASA BENNA the tendency is to avoid nitrogenous fertilizers to the roots and to prefer leaf interventions, more contemplated, absorbed better from the plant and without dispersions in the ground.

In order to demonstrate the elevated attention for the environment there is the fact that since 1988 the phytosanitary treatments are effected with equipments able to work with a very low volume, allowing a water saving of about 80% and a Phytosanitary products saving of 30%.

The respect of the productions in every hectare is rigorous, with an average of around 90 quintals, that goes down to 70 for the Gutturnio Classico Riserva. Above all for the Barbera, usually a generous vineyard, is opportune to reduce the load of clusters for plant to get a wine endowed with great volume.