Great Wines in To Be
07. November 2005 | 13:58
The grapes in the top vineyards Lamm, Käferberg and Loiser-Berg are now fully ripe and taste wonderful. Now all that matters is to harvest them when the weather is cool and dry. These situations are the most difficult: take Monday 7 November. There’s no rain, but a moist fog is making harvesting impossible. We must wait on, until a few dry days allow us to attain the qualities which we know is contained in the grapes.
The wines harvested earlier, such as the sekt base wine, the L+T and the Kamptaler Terrassen, have already finished fermentation without complications and show elasticity, freshness, and lightness – just what we are looking for.
Even for these young wines we do not build on early filtration and on finishing the wines quickly, but on patience and slow, natural clarification.
Time and patience are the base of all natural wines expressing their origin and vintage. The fabricating of young wines for a speculative primeur market is excluded by this vinification style. To make wine in this way is nothing else than speculation and the hunt for the biggest profit.