Steinzeiler 2018

The appropriate moment has arrived to make the assemblage of our Steinzeiler 2018. First we taste it, and then we get to work.
The individual casks are decanted together with a gentle pump, washed out and then refilled.
Sounds easy – and perhaps it is, too – but this requires a great deal of intuition and a lot of experience at tasting.
When all is said and done, the sum should taste better than the individual components.
Now the Steinzeiler still has about 24 months of additional maturation in the small oak casks.


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Cultivating the green fertiliser

We are cutting the grass mulch under and introducing yellow clover in the existing green lanes between the rows of vines. This increases plant diversity, aerates the greencover and provides light nitrogen mineralisation.

 

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Harbingers of Springtime

The cowslips and the pheasant’s eyes are blooming in our vineyard Ried Durr.

The blackthorns and wild cherries are gleaming vibrant white at the edge of the woods around Gloria and on the slopes.

Springtime is arriving on the Leitha Range, and we are busy binding the last of the shoots onto the wires.

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Trockenbeerenauslese

With eight pickers working, the harvest goes quickly. Especially since the winged-and-feathered pickers did such a thorough job shortly beforehand.

 

Where there was no netting, there are now no grapes. Only occasionally did the starlings leave a couple shrivelled berries behind.

 

The volume of juice from five hectares, which had previously undergone a preliminary harvest, amounts to half a barrique of Trockenbeerenauslese.

 

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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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