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We would like to invite you to celebrate with us! The Weyher Wine Festival will take place from September 6th to 9th, 2024. 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.
Our main season also begins NOW ! From September 9th, we will be open every day (except Tuesdays). Let the Canadian-Palatinate delicacies from Kristine's Lamesa melt in your mouth while you enjoy a wonderful glass of wine, the panoramic view in our garden and the fruity autumn air.
Some statistics say that moving is the second most stressful thing you can do in your life. (The most stressful is a divorce, but that's not our topic today.) In fact, there are very few people who like moving. No wonder, since everything is being shaken to its foundations and rearranged.
Wine is no different: the more often it moves from barrel A to barrel B, the worse its mood becomes. Because it too is torn from its beauty sleep, shaken up, forced through narrow tubes and has to get used to its new surroundings.
Well, says the clever winemaker, we'll just let the wine slumber wonderfully in the cellar and not disturb it. But it's not quite that simple (that was obvious)...
Everyone who has their own garden knows the problem: you look forward to the harvest for months, eagerly awaiting the first tomato, and then you don't know what to do with the excess and, after tomato salad, tomato soup, tomato casserole, tomato mozzarella and tomato bread, you can't stand the sight of tomatoes anymore.
We winemakers know this too. Once a year our cellar is bursting at the seams... and the rest of the year we live off of it. So what is the best way to store the precious liquid? This question has been answered very differently over the centuries:
We live on a cloud. A cloud of scent made of pollen and sunshine. In the last few weeks our vines have been blooming in the beautiful Palatinate, and there is no more wonderful scent in the world. The bees are in a frenzy of joy and we are happy too, especially because the year did not start so rosy:
After a short, warm spring phase at the start of the year (in February!), frost came again in May and caused the tender shoots to freeze in many vineyards in the 13 German wine-growing regions , as we have already reported. Our vineyards around Weyher were lucky and were spared, thanks to our protected and special location.
And then the rain came...
