How we cultivate our vines

30 different types of cover crops

Our vines are partly spur cordon trained and partly guyot.
Between the rows of vines we sow about 30 different types of cover crops which help bring nitrogen into the soil and allow it to breath.

We distribute the biodynamic 500 preparation after sowing, this stimulates the humification process and root development and improves soil structure, leading to an increase in soil vitality. In late spring we start to remove any unwanted, excess shoots and then in the summer we remove a certain number of leaves to allow better air circulation. We do not clip but interweave the vine-shoots on the 5th wire. We only use copper sulphate and sulphur in low concentrations and herbal teas of horsetail, nettle, as well as the biodynamic preparation 501, all to manage fungal diseases.

We sometimes use bacillus turingensis, but only when we have a major attack of grapevine moth which we establish by sampling the eggs on the grapes. We control the weeds mechanically between the rows and under the plant.