Harvest 2019 to be completed by VDP wineries
In 2019 the winegrowers had to hurry because of the good ripeness of the grapes and the rainy weather during the harvest.
"In only 16 days we were…
VDP Member Estates Complete the 2018 Grape Harvest
2018 was yet another winegrowing year marked by extremes. While 2017 is remembered by the VDP member estates as a turbo-harvest, starting early and…
VDP Member Estates Complete the 2017 Grape Harvest
The VDP Prädikatsweingüter finished their 2017 harvest earlier than in almost any other year in history. In southern winegrowing regions in…
VDP: How do you combine tradition and innovation?
Sarah Löwenstein: We don’t think in those categories. So much of the way we work is simultaneously progressive AND old school. We go our own way.…
VDP: Why did you become a vintner?
Sarah Löwenstein: The winery is my home; I grew up here. Despite this, I didn’t walk through the vineyard as a child knowing that I would follow in my parents’…
VDP: Which of your wines would you recommend to someone who does not yet know your winery – as an introduction, so to speak?
Sarah Löwenstein: The ‘Schieferterrassen’. The wine arouses curiosity…
VDP: What is your winery philosophy?
Sarah Löwenstein: We cultivate exclusively steep slopes on the Mosel terraces, which requires a lot of wo-man power. Instead of mechanisation, we have…
VDP: What is so special about your winery?
Sarah Löwenstein: We balance on the tightrope between control and letting go, between feeling and understanding, between archaism and modernity. This…
