Just one week before Thanksgiving we harvested the last grappes of this vintage. After the stop of last week with sunshine and cold nights we picked the riesling and gewurztraminer from monday october 20th to thursday (stop on wednesday because of the showers). Early this monday morning Eric climbed up to the Grand Cru Wineck Schlossberg hill (first picture left), exposed south-south-east. The long maturation period of these grappes gave probably an interesting complexity to the aromes, we will tell you more in a few weeks. Riesling Grand Cru 13,5 degrees, Riesling Klur (from old vines) 13 degrees, Gewurztraminer from Hinterburg and Heiligbrunn at least 15 degrees. The team is smilling on this very last picture because they are all very tired, so do Clément bringing back the last grappes on thursday evening. Elisa tries to drive the Fennwick to bring the grappes up to the press, not easy ... in a forgotten seal in the garden we found a curious visitor, beautifull and very rare salamander, we brought it back to the grass very quick.  The "Herbschtbrot" is the traditionnal party for the evening when grappe picking ends and this year Fusila cooked a morrocan couscous for us ! something different that choucroute and an opening to another culture. Petit Pierre liked it very much and also the big bottle of wine....finally some morrocan musique and dances finished this hard period

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