A year at BiniVista
Vinter
Time to rest…
After some hectic and important months of work, the culmination of a whole year’s hard work in vineyards and winery, we all now rest a bit… Our vines outside go to sleep with the beginning of the cooler season. Our wines inside rest and find harmony in their cylindric steel or wooden homes, while we humans take a much needed moment to reflect, plan and yes, also rest!
Then it all starts again outside! (and inside… the never ending story and circle of wine!)
We need to get the vines ready for a new year with the essential winter pruning and in the cellar we now start getting the first wines from the last year ready for bottling. A moment of change…
Forår
The spring is the beginning of it all…
Our vines awaken after their winter beauty sleep, freshly pruned and ready for whole new year! As the temperatures rise we start seeing the first buds form and quickly thereafter burst and the first leaves form. This is always a magical moment as it marks the beginning of a new vintage. The new shoots grow fast so we spend a lot of time making sure the shoots are properly trained the plants in perfect shape for the flowering.
The spring is also the time where we plant new vineyards, if planned, and replace less happy vines, when and where needed, in our existing vineyards.
Sommer
Summer is long, beautiful and lots of hard work!
The summer is always a beautiful and hectic period of the year for us. It starts quietly with our grapes taking shape, changing color and ripening while we can just watch and take care that all happens as perfectly as possible. We carefully nurse our plants and makes sure that the leaves provide shade for the grapes and that our vines are healthyand safe from diseases.
Then the most stressfull, beautiful and happy time of the year arrives; the harvest! Timing always varies from year toyear, but always mark the change of seasons from summer to fall.
We all work hard to harvest the fruit of of a whole year’s hard work and this is always a very special moment.
The activities continue from vineyard into the cellar where all our grapes are processed and magically turned into wine!
Efterår
Autumn takes the activities indoors…
With the beginning of autumn we slowly move inside, together with the fruit from our vines. This is when we turn grapes (not water!) into wine and for the first time can start tasting the result of all our hard work outside. We work gently to preserve the beauty of our fruit. To transform what Nature has given us into a beautiful drink we know will accompany many happy moments of sharing and joy for all our Binivista family.
This is a season of decisions. Which wines do we want to make? We taste the grapes, the first juice, and let creativity flow…
The winery is buzzing with activity, literally! Fermentations are happily bubbling along and the young wines then continue their unique paths via rackings and malolactic fermentations into maybe oak barrels, or stay in their steel tanks.
