Wine Knowledge
Sweet wines don't have a good reputation – somehow everyone associates them with a hangover or an untrained palate. But why is that actually the case?
In fact, this assessment directly relates to the difficulty of production, because sugar is known to be a flavor carrier. With a little more residual sweetness, one can therefore certainly mask a not entirely perfect quality in the wine...
Praise can be inspiring – we all know that. And when Europe's largest wine magazine awards our flagship, the single-vineyard Riesling, top marks, it's a bit like Christmas and a birthday combined. We just experienced exactly that, and ever since, we've been walking through our vineyards with a big grin on our faces. But what exactly is behind it?
» The Federal Honorary Prize winners in the wine and sparkling wine sector stand for excellent quality work and incomparable moments of enjoyment. With the utmost care and craftsmanship, they manage to translate the terroir, the climate and the special features of their region into unique wines and sparkling wines that impress. The Federal Honorary Prize winners are guardians of German wine culture and at the same time visionaries who carry it into the future - with creativity, a spirit of innovation and a deep understanding of what makes wine: enjoyment, community and the connection to home. « Freya von Czettritz, CEO of DLG Holding.
We have already told you a lot about our premium Rieslings, the incredibly strong piwi wine Cabernet Blanc and the special features of our winery. But we have never mentioned one small, modest wine:
Wine chat: unfiltered, straight from real life. With both feet deep in the Palatinate soil, hands sticky with grape juice, a head full of ideas and a heart full to the brim, just like the glasses.
This is not a textbook.
This is not a wine guide.
This is a piece of Palatinate winemaking life.
Welcome to the Palatinate.
Welcome to tradition & modernity.
Welcome to WeinGeplauder.
Outside, the (sleet) rain is falling. Hurrah! In the last few weeks, it has finally, finally rained heavily again. A whopping 300 litres of precipitation per square metre have fallen on us, and we cannot tell you how happy we are about it. All the dry streams are full to bursting, the rain is running down the mountain in a thousand rivulets, and even when you walk through the forest, it really splashes under your feet. Wonderful. We are sooo happy. Our vineyards and our souls have been yearning for this.
But it wasn't just the weather that made us happy. We also received the good news that our winery was named one of the top 100 wine producers in Germany in 2023. The DLG (German Agricultural Society) carries out this assessment, for which each participating winery...
