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Quality optimisation

DEFOLIATION MEASURES

Exposing the grape zone at the grain stage by removing basal leaves
while preserving, or at most partially removing, the third and fourth leaves opposite the grapes, which are important for their optimal primary supply
Better ventilation with reduced infection risk due to faster drying
Increased light exposure with radiation-induced thickening of the quality-determining grape skins.
Increase in colour index and extract value.
Prevention of poor shoot formation.

Grape halving

Strict yield regulation (berry stage grape closure) by removing the lower 1/2 to 2/3 of the grape
High extract enrichment and aroma density in the remaining portion
In addition, protection against infection through loose berries with better ventilation and faster drying

The grape mass of up to 2 tonnes resulting from this reduction measure is dropped into the area under the vines.
This returns it to the nutrient cycle of the vine, rather than the vineyard aisle.

Loops instead of topping

- No conventional mechanical topping/cutting of up to 10 shoot tips, which are instead looped back into the wire frame by hand
- No phytoschock
- Naturally regulated, stress-free, calm and self-limiting shoot growth
- No substrate competition between untimely new shoots (suckers) and grapes
- Consequently, increased concentrations of yeast-usable nitrogen and minerals in the berries
- Early veraison as physiological, seasonally typical and natural ripening and ageing of the vines

‘The aforementioned measures result in dense, varietal extract wines of high quality.’