Hochschule Geisenheim University’s last grapes were harvested today in Kaub am Mittelrhein as part of the enology project, and the students were confronted with a special challenge: a manual harvest on minimal pruning! Grape harvest in 3D; the golden and highly aromatic Riesling grapes were spread throughout the entire canopy.

During the viticulture project, students followed the year in the vineyard and can now continue with the winemaking process, from pressing to the finished wine, in various projects.

With this, Hochschule Geisenheim University is completing a successful harvest that already started in mid-August, and we look forward to interesting wines from this "crazy" vintage.

Text: Matthias Schmitt, Department of Enology, and Mathias Scheidweiler, Department of general and organic viticulture