Since 2019, Domaine L&R Kox, in collaboration with Luxaviation Drone S.A., has been running a pilot project on the application of phytosanitary products by drone.

The first French-German-Luxembourgish sparkling wine – proof of the know-how and cooperation of European winegrowers from the Moselle valley.

Or even two ! Carlos, a horse with Ardennais qualities, and Billy, a Brabançon horse, work in the Kox vineyards. With their master, they weed and work the soil.

It has been more than a century that European vines became infested with fungal diseases imported from America, such as mildew or oidium. A vineyard contaminated with such a disease can see its production reduced to zero. This then explains why the use of phytosanitary products, in conventional and organic viticulture, is inevitable. To offset this situation, the Kox domain has planted PIWIs, a new family of grape varieties with strong resilience characteristics, thus requiring less treatment.

The Rhäifrensch, a fruity and mineral wine, is made thanks to the crushing of the grapes by foot. But what kind of variety is it ?

It was a research project of Leader « Miselerland » that prepared the return to barrels made of luxembourgish oak. These have always been recognised by the wood industry throughout Europe and long used in cooperage even though it was never recognised as such. Despite this, barrels made out of luxembourgish oak unfortunately disappeared from Luxembourg cellars. Until 2010…

Obviously we mean the grape variety Saint Laurent, and not our ‘cellar master’ ! In 2004, three enterprising and motivated winemakers, Laurent Kox one of them, decided to reintroduce a red variety which had disappeared from the Luxembourg vineyards since nearly a century. Since 2004, the Saint Laurent variety is replanted in our vineyards at Kolteschberg in Schwebsange and at Dieffert in Stadtbredimus.