THE GRAPEVINE AS A LIVING BEING INSERTED INTO ITS ECOSYSTEM

My approach to viticulture is the result of a simple reasoning. I do consider the grapevine as a living being inserted into its ecosystem.
Humans get sick more easily in winter, grapevine in summer, but if we both have good immune defense system, we can overcome any disease without any drug intervention.
Vitality is at the heart of the process. Every agronomic intervention in the vineyard must be aimed at preserving the fertility of the soil, the substrate in which the vine had bedded out and draws energy from.
In the phytosanitary defense I use some resistance inducers, which are extraction preparations mainly from
obtained from plants, which fortify and at the same time stimulate the self-defense of the plant.
Phosphites and saponins of plant extraction induce self-defense, brown seaweed and aloe extract fortify and give vitality, silicon promotes the thickening of the foliage, propolis plays an antiseptic role.
Unfortunately, these elements alone are not enough to overcome typical diseases such as downy mildew and powdery mildew, but they provide a great deal of help in reducing the active ingredients used.
The winemaker is a father, a friend, but also the doctor of his own vines. Each has its own life and would require a singular intervention, even in treatments; the limit of today is that any action is done indiscriminately. More massive efforts are made and more the grapevines are likely to weaken. The advantage of phytostrengtheners is that in every action, even if the same for all, the grapevine takes what it needs and the rest is simply an extra, but not harmful or polluting.