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Establishing a new vineyard is not just about planting new grafts. Proper planting requires many predetermined steps after removing the old vineyard, and you must not skip any of them. We have prepared a series of blogs for you, where we will guide you through the individual steps as we complete the planting of our new vineyard. We plan to plant the Slovak new breeder Dunaj. Part 2: Irrigation and fertilization We started the new year 2021 on our vineyard with the work necessary to improve the soil. We fertilize the surface with mineral substances, the lack of which was...

Establishing a new vineyard is not just about planting new grafts. Proper planting requires many predetermined steps after removing the old vineyard, and you must not skip any of them. We have prepared a series of blogs for you, where we will guide you through the individual steps as we complete the planting of our new vineyard. We plan to plant the Slovak new breeder Dunaj. Part 1: Removing the old vine and preparing the soil In the winter of 2019/2020, our aging vineyard looked like this: The exhausted and thinned trunks were languishing, hardly yielding any harvest. An important...

We cultivate our vineyards in a sustainable way. We do not use herbicides, we minimize spraying with commercial fungicides. We cultivate the trunk belt with a swing section and we sow a mixture of beneficial herbs in the inter-rows. Clovers support the retention of nitrogen in the soil and nodule-forming bacteria increase its absorbability by the vine. In the interrow you can also find primrose, phlox, mustard, fescue, buckwheat and others. Green interrows protect against erosion, increase the water retention capacity of the landscape and the ability to retain rainwater. Flowering plants attract bees and other beneficial insects, earthworms. We...