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DECEMBER 2024
Our enthusiasm earlier this year received a huge blow when a devastating hail storm and massive flooding damaged two thirds of our vineyards on June 9th. The weather conditions remained challenging which gave us a hard time in the vineyards, but apart from the grapes we lost to the hailstorm, all other vineyards grew healthily and gifted us with outstanding wine quality. ThIS little wine we have will be released as HOMOK, DIÓ, ROZSA, RÉT and PRETTY NUTS. Nothing else. Make sure to grab enough PERSPEKTIVE, AEON, A QUIET SOFT LIGHT and LEMON from the current available vintages.
MAY 2024
We are super busy in the vineyard. Due to the very warm weather we had a super early start this year. Compared to a normal year (whatever that means 😉 we are currently 3 weeks ahead. So far so good. Vineyard management is top this year. We are pretty much ahead of things and feel very confident to cope with whatever weather gives us.
OCTOBER 2023
What a year! Until March we thought we might dry out, but then – whoop whoop – the rain came. As of today, we had 270mm of rain more than last year and a total of 110mm above the average. The vineyards really needed this water and grew us some beautiful grapes. Therefor harvest was a real treat this year. Healthy vines and healthy grapes were not so easy to grow this year, but Alex worked hard and succeeded again. The yield was not so plentiful, but the grapes were beautiful and very tasty. Hence the quality of all our wines of the current vintage is more than promising. We are super happy with them. Fermentation was slow, but all wines have finished fermenting by now and can relax on gross lees in the cellar until bottling.
MARCH 2023
Warmer days are slowly approaching and nature is just about to spring into live. Alex is in the vineyards binding and fixing broken poles and broken wires. Soils have been opened up during winter to get as much water deep down as possible. Unfortunately, there was no snow and not much rain. Apparently, up to today (mid march), we had a little less rain than average at this time of the year. 2021 gave us about 55mm less rain than average (calculated since 1971). The lack of rain shows everywhere already. The water level of the lake is still very low. The soil in the vineyards is very dry, too. Let’s hope for more rain to come very soon.