The Megixtone Calendar: Thirteen Months of Transformation
The Megixtone calendar gives the year a language of its own. Thirteen months of twenty-eight days describe a passage through rest, growth and transformation. Their names belong to the project’s symbolic world: a way to contemplate the life of wine, rather than a replacement for the agricultural calendar.
Thirteen times twenty-eight makes 364. A further day, SON ATEM, completes a 365-day cycle. This is a narrative structure, not an astronomical calendar or a timetable that determines when each vineyard operation must happen.
The thirteen months of the Megixtone calendar
IAN: the doorway. The cycle opens beneath the surface, in an image of winter stillness. Roots and earth seem to hold their breath. Rest is not the absence of a future harvest, but the quiet from which the story begins.
FEBRO: purification. The thought turns towards the return of sap and the vine’s reawakening. Its name evokes preparation: the moment before renewed growth becomes visible.
MAZ: vibration. The emerging bud becomes the centre of attention. Sound enters the narrative as an image of energy and expectancy, expressing the tension of life about to unfold.
APRI: opening. This is the gesture of unfolding, the passage from what is enclosed to what can meet the light. Flowering provides its symbolic image, without tying that event to a universal date.
MAIO: the green canopy. Leaves fill the view and the vineyard acquires a different density. The calendar turns from the promise of growth to its visible presence.
IUN: from flower to fruit. Fruit set marks a change in possibility. What began as a flower can become a berry, and the future harvest starts to take shape.
SOLI: the fullness of light. Conceived as the solstitial month, SOLI places sunlight at the centre of the story. It holds the image of summer at its most intense, when light seems to occupy the whole landscape.
IUL: the change of colour. Veraison becomes a threshold. The berries begin to change, and the vineyard can no longer be read as it was before.
GUSTI: the emergence of flavour. Sugar, acidity and aromas bring ripening into focus. The name suggests attention to what the fruit is becoming, not an instruction to harvest on a fixed day.
SETTI: fermentation. The scene moves towards the cellar. Yeasts transform sugars into alcohol, giving the calendar a tangible image of matter changing state and character.
OTTI: the descent into glass. Darkness and patience take over. Glass vessels belong to this chapter of Megixtone’s story, where the work becomes less visible but remains deliberate.
NOEM: settling. Gravity and time provide the central image. The month evokes clarification and quiet, as suspended particles slowly find their place.
DICEM: completion. The circle closes. Completion here means recognising the end of a passage before beginning another, rather than imposing a single finishing date on every wine.
SON ATEM, the pause outside the rhythm
In this symbolic scheme, 31 December is named SON ATEM. Atem is the German word for breath. The image is of a pause between phrases, a silence that allows the next movement to begin.
The calendar thus holds both a measured sequence and a space outside it. Its purpose is contemplative: it gives names to forms of attention that the ordinary succession of dates can conceal.
A personal language for the vineyard
These names are part of the world of Megixtone, where the language of music meets the changing appearance of the vineyard.
Their value lies elsewhere. By stepping outside the language of deadlines, the calendar asks us to look again at a familiar cycle. Rest, growth, transformation and waiting become moments to recognise, rather than time to get through.