The vines are already in full development due to the beautiful spring weather. The announced freezing weather therefore set off all the alarm bells for the wine growers. It was also all hands on deck at the Den Nachtegael wine estate in Zonnebeke last night. To protect his vines, winegrower Dirk Syx installed about 1,000 braziers to keep the temperature in the vineyard above zero.
“Heat ourselves three times”
Dirk Syx, Wijndomein Den Nachtegael: “We can heat ourselves three times. The first time you can warm yourself by moving everything around. We have been working on that all week. And now all night long with a team of six people to get all the pots going and check everything. And now for another whole day we can heat ourselves by taking everything down. So that is very intensive. That is why it may be important to find a final solution for this quite large problem in the future. problem for the entire fruit growing sector.”
