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| | ANSELMI'S GOODBYE TO SOAVE DOC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | An army of inspectors would not be enough to walk down every row in every vineyard of the over 5,000 hectares of Soave soil under vine. |
 | | The Garganega clones have never truly been selected; or rather, some clones have been selected by the research institutes in charge of such matters, but these are all productive strains, yielding huge, enormous bunches that weigh several kilos each; elongated grape bunches, as obese as the philosophy behind them. |
 | | It ripens much earlier than Garganega, therefore its vegetative cycle is different, which is a bother and causes problems, forcing growers to carry out certain agricultural practices at different times, to harvest at different times, and to implement grape selection during harvest. |
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