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Wine chat: unfiltered, straight from real life. With both feet deep in the Palatinate soil, hands sticky with grape juice, a head full of ideas and a heart full to the brim, just like the glasses.
This is not a textbook.
This is not a wine guide.
This is a piece of Palatinate winemaking life.
Welcome to the Palatinate.
Welcome to tradition & modernity.
Welcome to WeinGeplauder.
There are people who love chemistry. Others get glassy-eyed at the word "molecule" and are unpleasantly reminded of school. Let's see if we can explain the phenols issue to those of you who don't like chemistry in such a way that you read this article to the end - at least that is our stated goal!
Phenols are incredibly important to us winemakers. They are actually the wine, because they determine the color, the aroma/taste, the texture (how the wine feels in the mouth) and the shelf life. If you remove these four characteristics, there really isn't much left of a wine...
It's done! Tired but happy, we look over the harvested vines, with the good feeling that our precious grapes are now safely resting in the cellar. Like every year, a little sadness creeps into autumn... another year has passed. Another harvest behind us. And so nothing changes and yet everything changes, because while on the one hand we follow the cycle that already determined the lives of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, we must constantly renew, update and adapt. A curious mixture that demands a lot from us. In the web of family ties, half trapped, half loved, life continues to develop...
NOW it's finally here: the long-awaited moment when the harvest begins! We can hardly wait to harvest the first grapes of the 2023 vintage. If you want to experience this magical time, you can swap your office desk for the field and work for a day or three weeks (and everything in between!). Only those who have ever been covered in grape juice from head to toe know how precious a glass of wine really is.
You want to know what you are getting yourself into?
The Weyher Wine Festival will take place from September 8th to 11th, 2023. The whole village will be on its feet and there will be musical and culinary offerings in every courtyard! It feels like the whole world is meeting in Weyher. OK, maybe that's a bit subjective. But there are actually several thousand people who all come to our idyllic village to enjoy and celebrate and spread a party mood.
