Blaufränkisch from Point & Setz

We harvested our best Blaufränkisch – Ried Point & Ried Setz – under summery conditions.

Fully ripened berries, some of them both healthy and shrivelled –
but then, some individual grapes within a cluster had suffered from the rain that fell at the beginning of September.
This means we must be very selective and discard quite a few berries.

Which requires a great deal of effort, and reduces the volume of the BF harvest by one third.
But the grape material that made it to our cellar is really tops!

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Picking the Gloria

We’ve got magnificent weather for harvesting Ried Gloria – and the grapes are simply marvellous!

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Chardonnay!

We have been picking Chardonnay since Monday, starting with our Leithakalk, then the Ried Neusatz, and now we are in Ried Katterstein. 

The grapes are fully ripened and very sweet.

The vine leaves in the cluster zone are beginning to change colour – an unmistakable sign of full maturity.

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Harvesting our Zweigelt

Contrary to what one might have expected, the rain in recent days did only slight damage to our Zweigelt grapes – they are crunchy in texture and taste very sweet.

 

We hardly have to discard any at all.

 

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