Hard work for your enjoyment
Manual labor in the vineyard
The last days of the 2022 wine harvest have begun. Now it’s the turn of Heida, one of the most sought-after white wine specialties from Valais. The Heida from Adrian & Diego Mathier Nouveau Salquenen grows in Turtmann on a plot of vines that is one of the steepest in Valais. The place is called “zur Linde” and offers ideal conditions for the best Heida qualities. A lot of manual labor and hard work are required to harvest Heida in this terrain. The grapes are individually checked by hand, cut off and collected in yellow crates for transportation. Here too, manual labor is required on the steepest terrain to bring the full crates from the vineyards up to the road, where they are filled into transport buckets. Meanwhile, the cellar team prepares for the imminent delivery of the Heida at the grape reception. The full crates of Heida grapes are unloaded by hand by three experienced “jugglers”. After more than five weeks of harvesting, every move is perfect and the crates almost fly from hand to hand. The full grapes are first visually inspected and weighed by Diego Mathier before a first sample is taken to measure the sugar content (Oechsle degree). Adrian & Diego Mathier Nouveau Salquenen would like to thank the employees in the vineyards for their hard work for a successful 2022 harvest, as the basis for wonderful wine qualities in the glass.