The Vineyards
The steep vineyards, with at least 30% incline, sometimes up to 70% are all exposed towards the Moselle in south-western direction. This guarantees optimal exposition to the sun and a long sunshine and brings the late ripening Riesling to full maturity. The warm days and cool nights in the ripening phase from end of August until the harvesting at the end of October or November, contribute particularly to the forming of the Riesling's aroma.
Technology has arrived in the traditional professions. So it has in the cellars of our winery. There are although a few traditions that we still do the way they have been done a hundred years ago.
Development in wooden barrels
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Although the wine mostly ferments in stainless steel tanks, all premium wines are subsequently put into wooden barrels for maturation. The maintenance of wooden barrels is laborious and time consuming. But the effort pays off. The storage in wooden barrels creates mellow wines, who's taste is preserved for a long time in the bottles. Even innovative methods for wine development like micro-oxygenation cannot copy the fine and slow exchange of oxygen through the wooden planks of the barrel and are inferior to Nature. |
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Innovation reaches its limit, when it cannot copy the perfection of nature.
