Vintage 2018. Hot and cold.

In 2018 we started 10 day earlie than usual to pick grapes when they had reached the optimum ripeness. In the first week we had still 30 degress Celsius. Picking grapes is had physical work, uncounted drops of sweat felt to to the ground, we drank uncounted bottles of water.
On day no. 6, the first fall storms came up and broguth thunderstorms that were unusual even for our region in the south-west of Germany. We were lucky and had no damage in the vineyards. Temperature dropped down to normal level and we coninued the harvest at a moderate temperature. Actually, end of September we woke up one morning and had only 4 degrees celsius. The Oechsle scale for 2018 was great. The crop was extremly good in fields with good humidity conditions. However we only got little quantity in fields were we had a lack of water during summer time.