Weinwissen aus der Pfalz – Terroir, Rebsorten & nachhaltiger Weinbau

Was macht einen großen Riesling aus? Wie prägen Granit, Kalkmergel, Buntsandstein und Schiefer den Charakter eines Weins? Und warum sind PiWi-Rebsorten wie Cabernet blanc die Zukunft des nachhaltigen Weinbaus?
In unserem Weinwissen nehmen wir euch mit in die Welt von Terroir, Klima, Böden, Rebsorten und Pfälzer Weinkultur – direkt aus dem Familienweingut seit 1788. Gleichzeitig lassen wir euch mit einem Augenzwinkern und Pfälzer Charme hinter die Kulissen unseres Weinguts blicken. Viel Spaß bei unserem WeinGeplauder!

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Cabernet Blanc, a 20-year crime thriller

The winegrower has two arch-enemies: Oidium and Peronospora . Sounds like science fiction, but it's powdery mildew.

This causes the vines to wither. There's no cure for it... (at least that's what people thought for a long time), and that's why pesticides have to be sprayed - or the harvest has to be abandoned.

Federweißer & Onion Pie

As the days get shorter, our menu becomes more autumnal again, and the special highlight of the season is our fresh Federweißer with hearty onion cake.

Federweißer is actually a “ work in progress ”, i.e. not a finished wine yet. It is made from either red or white grapes, although for once the grape variety does not play a major role here. Fermentation (ie the process by which sugar is turned into alcohol) has started but is far from complete.

Starting signal for the 2022 vintage

Now it's finally starting again: The 2022 vintage has begun! Yesterday we harvested the first grapes for the 2022 vintage. These included the grape varieties Müller-Thurgau, Portugieser and Sauvignon blanc.

Even if the vintage is a bit more manual and therefore labor-intensive due to the ongoing drought, we are full of confidence and looking forward to the new vintage. From now on, our harvest team needs about four weeks in the vineyards to harvest the best quality grapes for you.

Autumn is just around the corner

the final preparations for the 2022 harvest are underway:

The holes in the rubber boots are plugged,

the grape press and the wine cellar are cleaned,

the scissors sharpened

fetched the grape wagons from the garage,

AND the harvest workers are hired.

Sommer in den Weinbergen - keine Zeit für die Hängematte!

Summer in the vineyards - no time for the hammock!

The grapes are beginning to change color - we are making great strides towards the 2022 vintage! From now on it will be exciting: the ripening of the berries has begun. Sugar is built up, acidity is broken down and finally the flavor is added! And of course you can already tell white from red wine with the naked eye. Everything is still possible - the quality of the grapes in the 2022 vintage will only be decided in the next few weeks.

But that doesn't mean that we're currently lying in the hammock! We keep a close eye on the grapes so that we can intervene in good time if the vines are no longer doing well.