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No Icewine
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:45:37 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English,vineyard | Tags: Eiswein, grapes, Icewine, Jahrgang 2008, Trauben, vintage 2008
We won’t produce any icewine this vintage, we still have enough. Still, a lot of other winerys will give it a try this year, and it looks good. It won’t take to long this year to get the necessary frost.
It is not to much what is needed, just temperatures below -7 °C, a few helping hands, and still nice and healthy grapes hanging on the vine.
Not this ones I’m going to show you here 
No icewine grapes, just the left overs from the last vintage after snowfall and temperatures around -1°C.
It won’t taste nice, even if it’s frozen
Gewurztraminer decorated with snow.
Outside frozen, inside sour
Finally it’s winter
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:02:31 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English,vineyard | Tags: Blätter, Schnee, snow winter, vineyard, Weinberg
During the last night the very first snow came down. Reason enough to get the camera and go out into the cold …
I haven’t be alone outside, my dog left his place in the winecellar and and joined me for the little walk.
Still you can find some green leaves in the vinyard
Todays todo list
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:00:54 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English | Tags: todo
Daily todo list: Celebrating the crisis.
No money, no pipeline through the winerys vineyards.
Communication update
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:45:42 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English | Tags: Communication, Facebook, Flickr, rss, twitter
Please note, I’m available in english at the folowing networks
twitter and facebook I communicate most of the times in english
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Todays todo list
Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:00:12 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English | Tags: todo
Daily todo list: labeling vintage 2008 redwine, and again office, office, office office. This bureaucracie things drives me crazy!
Hello? Are you looking for a wineblogger?
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:45:02 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English | Tags: football, Hoffenheim, Soccer, Wineblogger
No, they weren’t interested in a wineblogger
They have been looking for the coach of the german national football team Jogi Löw.
Todays todo list
Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:00:11 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English | Tags: todo
Daily todo list: racking Pinot blanc and Chardonnay and there is a lot of work in the office.
Todays todo list
Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:00:48 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English | Tags: todo
daily todo list:
racking pinot blanc
Winter
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:54:08 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English,vineyard | Tags: Frost, ground frost, Riesling
It looks like the winter is coming.
This morning beautyful ground frost in the vinyard.
Todays todo list
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:01 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English | Tags: todo
daily todo list:
preparing myself and the winery for this evenings public winetasting
Todays todo list
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:25:11 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English | Tags: todo
daily todo list
switch of cooling plant, bottling yeast-Schnaps, cleaning tanks, racking wine,
Harvesting Riesling by hand and grape harvester
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:45:51 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English,vineyard | Tags: grape harvester, vintage 2008
Mikel asked me to post some pictures about harvesting Riesling. No problem, here we are, 2 pictures which documents the the way winerys are working today. Every method might be the best one, depending on the situation, the vintage, the climate, the mood, the availability of manpower, etc …
Harvesting by hand, Riesling Spätlese from Read more
Riesling 2008
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:31:51 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English,vineyard | Tags: Riesling, vintage 2008
During the next days harvesting is going to be hot here in the winery.
Finally we are starting to pick Riesling.
Harvesting by hand at places like THIS one, we hope to get at least Spätlese qualities.
In late afternoon a harvestingmachine will also start picking grapes for basic quality wines
Wine Blogging Wednesday #50 – Which wine which wilderness?
Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:57:41 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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Category: English | Tags: Wine Blogging Wednesday
Russ Beebes winehiking blog is hosting the 50th edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday created by Lenn of LENNDEVOURS wine blog!!
Russ is having a great idea, get the bloggers walking and drinking at the same time
For me autum is the most beautyfull season in germany, in this time my country changes its coulours from green to brown, red, yellow and gold. Walking into the forests, fields and vineyards will bring you breathtaking coulourfull experiences.
For this event I went to a near place which is called Kohlhof, some 50 years ago the farming place of Heidelberg.
The wine:
The most easiest part of this event was the opening and drinking of the wine. I decided to drink regional, I decide further to enjoy something I have produced by my self, of course to be regional means a wine coming from Heidelberg! And there is only this wine Sorry for being lazy organizing wine!
So I was drinking Read more
Some thoughts about cork and its alternatives in germany
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:42:08 +0000 — Winzerblog |
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I have been asked to write about the situation of wine closures in germany and what I think of it. So here are just some of my thoughts, sorry for this short article, but my mind is during harvest allways in the winecellar!!
How many bottles ar closed with which closure? To be honest, I really don’t know what the situation is I’m not able to tell.
For me the situation looks like this: We do have a tremendous amount of different closures, and the number of bottles closed with alternatives ist rising dramatically. More and more wineries are switching to alternatives like Diam, plastic or screw cap.
Why?
There might be several reasons, I think the main reason we will find at the corcproducers themselves.
After the new wineworld was emerging and the demand for corks was getting bigger and bigger, the corc industrie did gave away the best qualities to the new wine world of course they were paying best prices. The rest was sold to Germany. This is what a lot of winemakers believe in. I’m not sure wether it is true or not, but I would tend to believe it.
The corcindustrie was rising prices like no one else in the winebusiness. Corks were double, triple and at least even quadruple its prices. In the same time prices for wines sold in germany were dropping. The producer, mainly importers of french, spanish and oversea wines were looking to reduce costs.
Germanys largest, most important wine merchant demands the use of plasticcorks from one specific company from his wine suppliers. In this stores you won’t find a single natural closure!
The winejournalists did start to campaign against natural cork, a winemaker colleague even guesses they were paid from the australian wineindustrie or get nice trips to australia. I don’t know what is true and I do not care. I don’t know very much winejournalists which do not take position against natural cork, again the corcindustrie did not care about these people and let them go. What a great mistake!
But also winemakers which usually stick with useful products did start to look for alternative products.
Read on why!
If any problems with the traditional closure occurs, the winemaker couldn’t find anyone who is responsible exept himself. The winemakers had to learn, it is allways something else but never the corkproducer! Here are some of these things you can learn from every corkagent walking around.
- After the cork find its way into the bottle, your bottle has to stand upright for min. 5 minutes, otherwise the corkindustrie won’t responsible for anything. Your corkagent is knowing everything and will teach you how to bottle wine, of course he cares and he loves you and your wines.
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Your corking machines should be always totaly new and completely overhauled after bottling a small amount of bottles, otherwise the corkindustrie will find some technical mistakes. Your personal corkagent will be able just to look for a few seconds to your machines and he knows they need to be overhauled completely, even if they are new and never used. Don’t forget, the corkagent loves you!!
- At least, vou need to store the corks in perfect conditions, and your corks should not be older than 2 weeks. Unless you agree to store the corks in your living room the corkagent won’t be happy and will tell you that under other conditions the corkindustrie won’t be responsible for anything what happens with the closure.
This could go on for a lot of of more points, no problem!
We learn, from winemakers sight the behavior of corkproducers is like this of a kidnapper who wants to press money for bad quality corks. In this case it was a real pleasure to learn there are alternatives in the world of closure and the consumers in germany are accepting them. The work against the corc monopoly could start. The demand of natural closures in the winery I’m working for has dropped about 90 %. We are using for the basic qualitys the Diam closure, the bottles sold to restaurants screw cap and all the rest like Spätlese, Auslese, Beerenauslese and barrel matured redwines get the natural cork as closure, but only of course the tradition.
To mark the point, I dislike the way how alternative closures are promoted in germany, but this happens of course the majestic corkproducers do not want to talk with common people like winemakers or wingrowers in my country, unless they have to in court.
Only corkagents did talk to us, but sorry, what must happen to a man to get a corkagent?
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