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ERST VERÖFFENTLICHUNG MAI 2008 SCHNEIDER ELLERSTADT

Schön war die Party gestern abend beim Markus und seiner Caro…

Dazu gab es viele namhaften Winzer und Weine die den feierlichen Rahmen begleiten durften.

Weingut Robert Weil, Weingut Spreitzer, Weingut Johannes Leitz, Weingut Schlossgut Diel, Weingut Fritz Haag, Weingut Ansgar Clüsserath, Weingut Wittmann, Weingut Dreissigacker, Weingut Schneider Ellerstadt, Weingut Dr. von Bassermann-Jordan, Weingut Hensel, Weingut Dr. Bürklin-Wolf, Weingut Salwey, Weingut Johner, Johner Estate, Weingut Steenberg, Weingut Schloss Gobelsburg, Nieeport Vinos.

ERST VERÖFFENTLICHUNG WEINGUT SCHNEIDER ELLERSTADT from Patrick Johner on Vimeo.

Unter http://vimeo.com/1062096 kann man den Film Fullscreen in 720p HD Qualität anschauen !!!

Einen herzlichen Dank an Nikolas Rechenberg für die Kurze Übernahme der Kamera und der emotionalen Aufnahme von Markus mit seinem Sohn…

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London Wine and Trade Fair 2008

Sie finden uns am Stand E40 bei unserem Importeur Awin Barratt Siegel Wine Agencies vom 20. bis 22. Mai 2008

I will attend the London Wine and Trade Fair at the Stand  E40 of our Importer Awin Barratt Siegel Wine Agencies.

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Film: Kaiserstuhl at Springtime – Frühling am Kaiserstuhl

The Kaiserstuhl at Springtime from Patrick Johner on Vimeo.

The Kaiserstuhl in the south western part of Germany is famous for its wines and landscape. Sit back and enjoy some springtime impressions. One of the most beautiful viewpoints is on top of the Mondhalde, a hill between Bischoffingen, Oberrotweil and Oberbergen. If the weather is nice, you can see a magnificant panorama of the Vosges mountains in Alsace. At this time of the year the vines have budbirst and the new shoots start to grow. To view this Film in HD Quality please click here….
Frühling am Kaiserstuhl ist immer eine Reise wert. Diese schöne Jahreszeit habe ich in einem kleinen HD Film eingefangen. Zur Zeit ist die Aussicht auf den Vogesen sensationell. Für uns Winzer ist allerdings der Befallsdruck der Maikäfer enorm groß, da die Engerlinge die Rebwurzeln anfressen, und die Rebstöcke dadurch absterben. Vor ein paar Tagen hatten die Reben Austrieb. Bei diesem schönen Wetter wird es ein rasches Wachstum geben. Ideale Vorraussetzungen um keine großen Schäden von Eulen (Raupen) oder vom Springwurm zu erhalten.
Für eine HD Version dieses Films müssen Sie hier klicken…
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Almost finished our Pinot Noir

The vineyards

Harvest in the Wairarapa is speeding up. There are some vineyards with huge crops and Botrytis infections. But those who properly take care of their vines and do some green harvest, just have perfect grapes.

We have almost finished our Pinot Noir and the pressure of fresh botrytis will increase every day, especially if we have warm damp weather.

Morning fog followed by sunny weather is a beautiful sight, but the grapes mature rapidly and the skins start to get thin and crack open. A good entrance for Botrytis.

Picking Pinot Noir Grapes in New Zealand

This year, looking at the vines, we thought, we would have a larger crop than normal, but the berry sizes were between 6mm and 12mm, resulting in low weights once again.

The crop levels from Pinot Noir range from 2 to 3 tons per hectare. Brix levels were between 22,5 Brix (96°Oe) and 24,2 (104°Oe) and the fruit was very ripe with wonderful intense flavours.

We hardly had any shrivelled dry raisins giving grapes the taste you would normally get in Pinot Noir from Central Otago.

Just intense blackberry and blueberry flavours deriving from the alluvial free draining gravels.
As we don’t like too many stalks/stems/striggs, unripe berries, well green components, we also sort out these after the destrigging machine…

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At the same time we have also been assembling our 2007 Pinot Noirs, deciding what will go into the reserve Pint Noir and what will go into the normal Gladtsone Pinot Noir .

Can you imagine the chaos of barrel sorting in the middle of harvest?

Inside view of the winery

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Hello to all Wine Bloggers Worldwide from sunny harvest 2008 in New Zealand.

When surfing the Internet, it is quite amazing how many Wine Blogs are out there. I have gathered some together, and I’m still finding more every day. Now as most of the Wine Bloggers live in the northern Hemisphere waiting for warm weather…

… I just thought, that I’d say hello and invite you all to have a look at what’s going on here in the Wairarapa at Johner Estate…

We are in the middle of harvest, and it has been a wonderful dry season with plenty of sunshine and most important of all “Cold Nights”… The essential thing for cool climate varieties like Pinot Noir or fruity Sauvignon Blanc.

So if you would like to leave a comment or have any questions, I’ll be more than happy to reply!!!

Greetings to All !!!

Patrick

Welcome to Johner Estate New Zealand

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Master Sommelier Shayn Bjornholm has reviewed our 2004 Pinot Noir

We have received a note from our U.S. Importer Ingenium Wines

We have received the following review from Master Sommelier Shayn Bjornholm:

2004 Karl. H. Johner “Enselberg” Pinot Noir, Baden, Germany
From the screw cap enclosure to the use of Pinot Noir on the label (instead of Spatburgunder) to the 14% alcohol by volume, Johner is quite obviously not your grandmother’s German producer. Both the style and marketing of the wine display a modern approach to sate the seemingly unquenchable thirst for this grape in the United States – and what timing. Bravo! The wine is delicious, flat out. It reminds of something between a riper California Central Coast meets a 1er Cru Chassagne Montrachet rouge – rich, fresh, bursting red cherry/raspberry and purple flowers with tannins that are soft and round, with a hint of tea leaf earth and a restrained touch of exotic baking spice due to oak. For the money, a fine, balanced, perfect to drink now bottle of Pinot Noir.

Now as I’m in New Zealand at the moment I only have our German Label of the Wine here…

German Version Label of this Pinot Noir