Kollwentz - Römerhof Wine Estate

All grapes from our own vineyards are picked by hand. This implies rigorous selection directly on the vine - only fully ripe, unscathed fruit ends up in the cellar. By the way: we have no irrigation systems in our vineyards. It is true that in extremely dry years it may happen that we forgo one or another harvest from young vineyards. On the other hand, the vines will root substantially more deeply, thus releasing extra aromas and flavors as well as power into the grapes.

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Application of Lime

In our Ried Gloria the vine trunks are being painted with hydrated lime, to
prevent the cutworms from devouring the incipient buds.

This treatment is extremely successful - in three nightly inspection tours,
we could find only isolated, individual cutworms.

However, this takes a lot of time and energy - nearly 20 hours per hectare!

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