Viticulture

Preserving the old vines on our plots is one of our most important jobs. We partly cultivate our 50-60 year old vineyards as free standing wine, however most of it is trained on mid height cordons. We find yield control is of utmost importance to concentrate the mineral flavour profile in our wines. Therefore the annual yield is reduced to 3.5 tons/ha, on some areas it is only 2.5 tons/ha, for our sweet wines we reduce even further. Harvest is entirely manual; we sort the berries and clusters already in the vineyard. Only the highest quality raw material makes it to the winery. Processing starts immediately after arrival. Both the raw materials and the wines are protected even from the slightest oxidation all through the processing.