Photo de stock - 25 August 2023, Saxony-Anhalt, Burgwerben: Franziska Zobel, vine protection warden of the Freyburg Winegrowers' Association, checks the Oechsle degree of the Zweigelt grapes in the vineyard of cooperative member and winemaker Helmut Kühn as part of the bonitur. The winegrowers of the Freyburg-Unstrut Winegrowers' Association are now heading for the harvest. When exactly it will go into the vineyards will be decided in the next few weeks. Presumably, the main harvest will begin between September 12 and 15. The prerequisite for this is the annual bonituren. Here, all vineyards of the approximately 300 members are expertly inspected and the expected qualities and quantities are estimated. Both have so far proved to be very satisfactory. Grapes for white, red and rosé wines ripen in the more than 1,000-year-old cultivation area of quality wine. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa. - Burgwerben/Saxony-Anhalt/Germany