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Outside, the (sleet) rain is falling. Hurrah! In the last few weeks, it has finally, finally rained heavily again. A whopping 300 litres of precipitation per square metre have fallen on us, and we cannot tell you how happy we are about it. All the dry streams are full to bursting, the rain is running down the mountain in a thousand rivulets, and even when you walk through the forest, it really splashes under your feet. Wonderful. We are sooo happy. Our vineyards and our souls have been yearning for this.
But it wasn't just the weather that made us happy. We also received the good news that our winery was named one of the top 100 wine producers in Germany in 2023. The DLG (German Agricultural Society) carries out this assessment, for which each participating winery...
History is a grey past ... that keeps coming back to haunt us and still defines us today. Because even though we like to believe that we build our existence freely and independently, this is not the case at all, especially when it comes to a traditional family winery.
We have often mentioned that vineyards think in generations. It gets very exciting when this cross-generational planning is shattered by wars and family crises .
Our winery is located only about 20 km as the crow flies from the French border...
Anyone who stands in front of the wine shelf (and does not consider themselves a connoisseur) is often quite overwhelmed. So many names! So many quality specifications! What do I have to pay attention to? What does all this tell me? When different countries have been talking shop for hundreds of years and constantly adopting new definitions with many bureaucratic rules, it is no wonder that the result is an almost impenetrable jungle.
Honestly? Often you just buy the label you like, hoping that the contents will match.
Today we want to shed some light on the matter...
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...
