Planting a new vineyard is a milestone that will last for at least a generation. Deciding about the variety is a major choice. But deciding about where to plant, which distances between rows and vines, the training system and thinking beyond the vineyard as a place of resource production is at least equally important. We’re in the middle of a… Read more →
Remarkable weeks lie behind us. Seeing all the wonderful restaurants, bars, shops and freelancers we’re connected to suffer from the Corona shutdown has been breaking our hearts. Where will this all end? Many places offer pick-up or delivery options these days and we’re thankful that many of you make use of this. And not surprisingly online is booming. Nonetheless there… Read more →
The sun is shining bright and strong this morning on our Christmas tree as my thoughts go back to 2013. Oskar was a couple of months old starring at the lights of the candles and we had just filled our first three barriques with the first Heimat Silvaner and the Wanderlust. We still didn’t have a clear plan what to… Read more →
When we returned from our little family vacation the 3rd week of August I thought we’d still have plenty of time until the rush begins. The first visitors arrived. It was a perfect summer week and dinner feasts were still taking place in the yard. It was a pleasure having our dear friend Sabine around during harvest to take care… Read more →
It’s spring. The most classic spring we’ve experienced in years. Some warm days, some chilly days, a little bit of rain here and there and a touch of frost a few times. The vineyards look beautiful. We had a good bud break, only a little bit of frost damage here and there and the greening looks beautifully diverse. A fun… Read more →
We’ve been making Pet-Nat for a few years now. Since the beginning there has been a huge interest how it’s done and so I thought it’ll make sense sharing our experiences and describing how I currently do it in a blog post. From the beginning on our goal was to end up with a pressure of 2,5 bar to match… Read more →
Originally Melanie and I had planned to do a chilled trip all the way through Italy this August. But an early bud break followed by summer all way long made us reduce the road-trip to a couple of days of camping in the Bavarian woods. When we came back there was just enough time to welcome Miryam from Spain and… Read more →
Rarely can anybody remember such a long summer as we’ve been (and still are) experiencing it this year. We had to start early in the morning many days to finish the fine-tuning in the vineyards, the afternoons were mostly too hot to work outside. Good that we had a fair amount of work left to do in the cellar. Wines… Read more →
It’s been a remarkable season so far. We’ve been experiencing serious summer weather for weeks now with decent amounts of rain every now and then. There are no better growing conditions. The vineyards are three weeks (!) before the average schedule and we’re expecting harvest to kick in late August. Most vineyards carry a lot of grapes, big grapes. We… Read more →
After two weeks passed we finally finished planting our mix of 17 varieties (“Alter Fränkischer Satz”). A few hundred years back this used to be the standard way of planting a vineyard. A mix of varieties increases the diversity and decreases the chance of a bad harvest – if two varieties perform badly there are still 15 left. Melanie and… Read more →
