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| 7.11.2005 |
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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.
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