The wine is still sitting in barrels, but it will soon be time to bottle the 2020 vintage. The Traminer was harvested measuring 98 Oechsle and outstanding grape quality. The Dornfelder still made it into the wine cellar at 85 Oechsle. The late frost in May meant this harvest had to be sorted according to the principle of \u201cseparating the wheat from the chaff\u201d. April\u2019s warm temperatures caused the vines to grow shoots very early. Temperatures in May dropped to minus five one night, afflicting the vines and leaving many of the shoots frozen. Even though Mother Nature did a good job afterwards, and side shoots sprouted, the final harvest was relatively small.<\/p>\n
The curse and blessing of Epicormic Shoot<\/span><\/p>\n On the one hand, epicormic <\/span>shoots are sorely needed <\/span>to save the harvest following a late-season night frost. The epicormic <\/span>shoot takes over from the shoot tip, drawing nutrients upwards and ensuring that the lower grapes are properly supplied. On the other hand, the new shoots lead to compaction of the \u00a0foliage in the damaged vineyard, providing fertile ground for a fungal attack. If the winegrower reacts too late, mildew takes a firm hold and the harvest he\u2019d hoped to save is lost after all. Unfortunatly, I missed the right moment. On top of that came heat, drought, and so a lack of water. Like other winegrowers, I had to water generously. In conclusion, 2020 proved challenging in many respects, not just due to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n From the grape to the bottle<\/p>\n With a yield of 400 litres, therefore I decided to buy M\u00fcller-Thurgau as grape juice and blend the extract of the white grapes with the Dornfelder to make Rotling. I would like to bottle this ros\u00e9 wine in Schlegel bottles. The Traminer will be bottled into Bocksbeutel bottles as a Sp\u00e4tlese and registered for Qualit\u00e4tswein testing. I wonder what the overall result will be! It\u2019s not ready yet, as the wine is currently still slumbering on its fine lees in the wine barrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The wine is still sitting in barrels, but it will soon be time to bottle the 2020 vintage. The Traminer was harvested measuring 98 Oechsle and outstanding grape quality. The Dornfelder still made it into the wine cellar at 85 Oechsle. The late frost in May meant this harvest had to be sorted according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolfweine.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}