Category: Nature

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Violence in the vineyard

Let me take you on a dream journey.

Imagine: You walk through the vineyards. The intense green of the leaves is slowly changing in a golden orange. Autumn is coming. Harvest is over. The mist covers the landscape softly like a blanket. Everything is calm.

But then, you see it: Horribly rotten, withered and dead. A grapevine, which is hopelessly afflicted by ESCA*!

You instantly take your scissors and start to cut it all off, violently. Until nothing rests but the root. At the end you also tear out the root. No mercy!

At the end you contemplate your work: Well done!

You continue your walk. Peaceful and calm.

 

*Esca- a collection of mushrooms, which besets the vines root. A lethal illness for a grapevine. All that rests is a brown dried and dead piece of wood.

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NATURE TO CULTURE

Nature to Culture- what does that mean?

Let me give you an example: Wine – A winemaker grows the plant, he nurses every little sprout until he becomes a leaf. He cares about his vineyard the whole year. Until the harvest comes. Then he picks up the fruits of his work, press’ them and puts the juice in a tank to create his own wine. When the vinification is over, he will bottle the wine -which is a part of our culture- to sell it afterwards. During this process, nature became culture. 

I am a 18-year-old girl and I will begin to study beverage technology in October 2017 and I will write about the connection between nature and culture. ( and maybe some other stuff;) )

Have fun!

Janna