Weingut Fitz-Ritter

Impressions of our 2007 Harvest

2005 Harvest - 2004 Ice Wine Harvest

Our harvest team on the way to our ripe Great-Growth Grapes

October 11, 2007: Our team in the Dürkheim Michelsberg

To our great joy, the 2007 harvest has filled our cellars with very clean and lively white wines and red wines which show all the attributes needed for great depth and character. The condition of the grapes at picking was optimal following a rainy winter season, April temperatures resembling those of high summer and a dry late summer. We are looking forward to the first cellar tasting of the young wines.

Our field manager Christian Klein (engineer of viniculture and oenology, FH Geisenheim)

Picking our Dürkheim Michelsberg Riesling Great Growth

Energetic members of the annual team: Stanislaw, Robert und Waclaw from Poland

Thanks to the prolific presence of noble rot (Botrytis Fungus) in our nearly 40-year-old Gewurztraminer vineyard, we decided to make a Gewurztraminer Beerenauslese. This involves a great deal of hands-on work, as shown here with our helpers separating the dried grapes with high concentrations of sweetness from the normal grapes in the clusters.

Just as was done 100 years ago, the hand-picked grapes are carried out of the vineyards in the protecting “Logel” back-carrier.

Retired field-manager Karl-Heinz Bender, who has been at Fitz-Ritter for more than 40 years, is still always present fort he Great Growth harvest. He gladly shares his experience with the Apprentices training to become Vintners.

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