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Erinnert ihr euch noch, dass wir vor wenigen Wochen vom sensationellen Jahr 2025 geschwärmt haben? Kein Frost, Regen und Sonne im wunderbaren Wechsel – alles paletti! Uns war schon klar, dass es dieses Jahr ca. 20% weniger Ertrag als im Durchschnitt geben würde, weil die Blüte sich lange hingezogen hat und es einen kleineren Kälteeinbruch gab, der dazu führte, dass nicht alle Blüten bestäubt wurden.
Andererseits fanden wir das nicht ganz so tragisch, denn hierdurch sind die Trauben dieses Jahr „lockerbeeriger“ (also mit etwas mehr Platz zwischen den Träubchen) gewachsen. Das sorgt für eine gute Durchlüftung und vermeidet...
We know this from classic fairy tales: if you get into dire straits, the white knight comes galloping up and saves you from certain doom. We winemakers have a "white knight" like that too, only his horse drinks diesel.
This year we desperately needed him, our knight, because the weather behaved like the proverbial dragon:
The grape harvest began on September 4th! We are now out in the vineyards every day with our harvest team and the machine to bring our precious grapes safely and soundly to the winery. But how does the juice actually come out of the grapes?
“Totally simple,” thinks the layman.
"Jump with both feet into a tub full of grapes and stomp away."
Right. That's how it used to be...
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.
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...
