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About Peter Jakob Kühn Wines
For us, biodynamics means above all increased attention in the vineyard and empathy towards our vines and t he natural connections surrounding them. We use them to promote soil vitality, biodiversity, and create a real, deep relationship between us, our vines, and the soil. The latter, especially, is the essential basis for healthy, aromatic grapes that have an expression of the individual place.
As vintners it is part of our task to intervene with nature by sensitively cultivating it. The idea of biodynamics is to disturb nature as little as possible, creating a balance between nature and plantation. We achieve this for instance by applying natural compost, this way returning to the soil what our vines drain as nutrients. Due to these and other measures – like diverse planting – we sustain the quality and vitality of our soil also long-term. The compost, which mainly consists of cow dung is “inoculated” with various compost preparations, which in turn we also make ourselves from organic substances and plant parts. These preparations are applied similarly to homoeopathy in minimal doses. It is their task, to initiate and regulate the rotting process.
Above all, biodynamics has also changed us profoundly and has brought back sensitivity and empathy to us. Today we have a real relationship with all living things in our vineyards, as we understand them better and know of the part they play in the ecosystem. We don’t just encounter weeds, vermin, and diseases, but a contained and logical system of cause and effect, which we just need to understand better and that we can influence gently but efficiently. This changed perspective of things, and especially the change in the fruits of our labour make us today deeply happy and grateful.
