The first blog about the cultivation and production of the top quality iris roots from Italy. irisbarbaresco@gmail.it - www.iryssima.it
Our project, our dream lives also in winter: we use this season (this year really sunny) to increase the numbers of our cultivation. Here we have the new lines of roses cultivated like vineyards. It will be 6 paths of roses 100 meters long each. I can't wait.
One thinks that roses are just the shining blossoming flowers of May/June. But roses live also in winter, and they do like to be treated well.
So this year/winter we really took care of them with all love we could. Then came the snow and all was covered in white. Even with white everything is magic... waiting for spring.
I just wanted to add some more pictures of our blossoming Rosa Centifolia di Barbaresco at the early morning. The Rosa Centifolia di Barbaresco represents a real unique cultivation in this zone.
This year the spring was lovely. As usual I found myself alone to manage with the impelling duties of the production. Moreover, the pandemic moment didn't help. At the very last moment, after tons of doubts I decided to but a still made in Austria, called "Leonardo". I was able to reach the place to bring to with me, but no possibilities to attend the course to learn the secrets of distillation.
But sometine Destiny (I would love to call it in a different way) is better than us and in the very last moment I found Fabrizio, a young guy with passion in stills, in transforming them and in gin (he is a top distiller for that).
We saw that the still I bought in Austria was of very good quality but totally lacking of professional control: steam temperatures, water temperatures, control of temperature of water, cooling of the liquids. He really speeded up and trasformed my "normal" still into a professional one, increasing its perfomances, with details that I cannot open now to public. It is in fact something of total unique and also secret, hence I will not post any picture of it.
Fabrizio also spent his time by teaching me how to distill (sorry for my Austrian friends, but a super and speeded up course!) and we did our first acqua di rose di Barbaresco, in between some beers and some good Barbaresco wine. We spend a very lovely time together, chatting about a lot of topics while waiting the water drops out.
To distill I had to wake up at 5 AM to proceed with harvesting. The Rosa Centifolia di Barbaresco was of such a beauty, that it was worthy just to admire it. And what a scent!!
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| The dawn of Rosa Centifolia di Barbaresco by Tenuta Ca' Grossa - Barbaresco |
The product we obtained is really stunning! I also started to think about labelling the production, like this:
Our first idea was to supply German and Austrian sellers of this product on their local markets. The beginning was good, but the work we had to make for each dried orris root was not worthy the price.
So we decided to suspend our production and to move towards the production of essential oil from different Roses Centifolia.
Meanwhile, we decided to come back to our "first love" i.e. iris and we decided to put on sell on ebay our roots, directly from the producer in the hope that people will support the direct producers, save money, and obtain a high quality product 100% and 100% handmade.
Here some of the orris root we put on sale for Euro 6,90 on ebay.
This year has been really tough. We all underwent a difficult period. But the roses didn't know about that and this year gifted us a fantastic huge blossoming.
The scent of around 100 roses - 2 meters tall - was really beautiful
