{"id":3458,"date":"2019-05-01T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johner-estate.com\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2020-04-01T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T14:44:21","slug":"harvest-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johner-estate.com\/?p=3458","title":{"rendered":"Harvest 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The season started with a great amount of spring time frosts. We were also affected at our main Vineyard. But in some of the other vineyards it was a total loss.<\/p>\n<p>Then around flowering it just poured rain. This miserable weather resulted in a very low fruit set resulting in very small berry sizes.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily the summer was just magnificent, hot and dry.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"980\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6oAbF5SVgS0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This weather and the low yields affected the start of vintage which had never been this early.<\/p>\n<p>We were able to pick very concentrated red wines, with a lot of Tannins and great potential for long time storage.<\/p>\n<p>The Sauvignon Blanc was also picked with beautiful ripe and tropical flavour profiles.<\/p>\n<p>As vintages 2017 and 2018 had heavy rain in April that ruined the opportunity to make world class Cabernets and Syrah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2019 finally had the ideal weather for these late ripening red wine varieties. Our customers worldwide are already looking forward to these wines when they will come out.<\/p>\n<p>The weather stayed fine and it was a short wait for some nicely shrivelled grapes for our noble sweet wines.<\/p>\n<p>2019 was an exceptional year, with very low yields and fantastic quality!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season started with a great amount of spring time frosts. We were also affected at our main Vineyard. But in some of the other vineyards it was a total loss. Then around flowering it just poured rain. This miserable weather resulted in a very low fruit set resulting in very small berry sizes. Luckily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1frvq-TM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johner-estate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johner-estate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johner-estate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johner-estate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johner-estate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johner-estate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3459,"href":"https:\/\/www.johner-estate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johner-estate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johner-estate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johner-estate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}