Harvest
12 September 20265 min read
Why we pick before seven
Cool grapes keep their acid and their perfume. Here is what a harvest morning looks like, hour by hour.
Vineyard
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The coil: how basket vines beat the wind
Our vines grow in low rings on the ground. It looks strange; it is the only reason there is wine here at all.
Walk the terraces and you will not see a single trellis. Every vine is trained into a low basket, a kouloura, and the bunches hang inside it.
The island's summer wind would strip leaves and sandblast the fruit on a trellis. Inside the basket, the grapes are shaded and still.
Every winter we prune each basket back and add one more turn to the coil. When a basket is too tall, around seventy years old, we cut it at the root and let it start again.
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