A.n early Wednesday morning, numerous winemakers in various German wine-growing regions began harvesting ice, including in the Rheingau. The production of this noble sweet specialty requires temperatures of seven degrees below freezing point. The Winkeler Weingut Allendorf reports on the ice harvest in the Winkeler Gutenberg location around 5 a.m. In the vineyards of other wineries, however, it was not yet cold enough, as they say. The Robert Weil winery in Kiedricher also reports no results.
According to the German Wine Institute, this time the Nahe winery Korrell Johanneshof in Bad Kreuznach-Bosenheim is ahead of the ice harvest. Winemaker Martin Korrell confirms the Riesling ice harvest in the “Bad Kreuznacher Paradies” location at temperatures of minus eight degrees. A total of around 20 harvest workers brought in frozen grapes with a must weight of 142 degrees Öchsle.
Very good grapes for ice wine
In southern Hesse, the Bergstrasse winemakers harvested ice wine grapes of the Souvignier gris grape variety at 140 degrees Öchsle in the Heppenheimer Stemmler. “In the end it should be around 110 to 120 liters,” estimates Reinhard Antes, the director of the Bergstrasse wine cooperative. Overall, compared to previous years, the early ice grape harvest with very healthy grapes promises high quality ice wine specialties.
Ice wine reports are also available to the wine institute from the Moselle from the Dr. Hermann and from Franconia, where the Meintzinger winery harvested 200 liters of ice wine with a must weight of 148 degrees Öchsle. “This is a very rare thing for us,” says Philipp Meintzinger. The winery was able to bring in the last ice wine so far in 2016.
In Rhineland-Palatinate, 152 farms have planned the ice wine harvest on an area of 107 hectares and reported it to the authorities, the responsible Chamber of Agriculture announced. In the previous year there were 93 farms with a total of 72 hectares.
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