March 8th 2010
“Even though the winter starts to come to its end (Yes the temperature is not -23 anymore, but still snow in the vineyards), we still have a lot of work to do in the vineyards before spring. The most time consuming work is the pruning. Each and every vine must be cut back, otherwise the vine would use too much energy to the branches and leaves. We don’t want to have more than a certain number of bunches on each vine. If we get too many grapes they will not be concentrated enough, and the wine will be diluted and watery.
On the picture you can see that we are keeping only one cane on each vine. When we have cut of all wood that we don’t want to keep, every vine must be tied up on a wire to support the heavy grape bunches. All this work is made by hand, there are no machines that manage to do it. In summertime we use the dry wood when we barbecue, which gives the meat a special flavour.In the winery we are at the moment bottling all the young wines, as well as previous years wine that have been matured in oak or tank.
Some of our wines are made for immediate consumption, while other benefits from some maturation. We will soon start to bottle the rosé wine of vintage 2009 for the Swedish market, which will be released at Systembolaget in May. The name is “Leth’s Have Pink”, isn’t that funny?”
Franz Leth
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