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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.
Being in the right place at the right time ... so much depends on that. Entire destinies have developed differently than planned because you were in the right place at the right time. For us winemakers, such a decisive moment comes every year: when we decide when the harvest season begins.
But when is the ideal time to start harvesting grapes?
Very simple: when the grape is ripe.
And when is it ripe?
That's where it gets more difficult.
As the days get shorter, our menu becomes more autumnal again, and the special highlight of the season is our fresh Federweißer with hearty onion cake.
Federweißer is actually a “ work in progress ”, i.e. not a finished wine yet. It is made from either red or white grapes, although for once the grape variety does not play a major role here. Fermentation (ie the process by which sugar is turned into alcohol) has started but is far from complete.
