Shredding vine wood for the wood-chip furnace

The warm and dry weather we’ve had recently causes the old vine wood to dry out rather quickly.

So it’s the ideal time to get out our mulcher/collector and gather it up, at just the right size for our wood-burning furnace.

We’ll let the wood dry out in the courtyard just a bit more, until the moisture-content shows under 10%.

This furnace enables us to heat the entire winery, and can also provide cooling by means of a transducer.

Removing dead wood from the wire trellises

After we spent seven weeks pruning the vines, it was time to remove last year's superfluous wood from the wires.

This amounts to some ninety percent of the previous year’s growth.

Only after doing this can we bind the vine’s single remaining shoot to the wire.

www.kollwentz.at