Wine Knowledge
The Federal Honorary Award is the highest award that a food company can receive. It has been awarded annually by the Federal Ministry of Food & Agriculture since 1951. The results of the quality tests by the DLG (German Agricultural Society) form the basis.
We at the Graf von Weyher winery have received several special awards in recent years , including second best young winemaker (Peter Graf), for our single-vineyard Rieslings, for our sustainability pioneer (Cabernet Blanc) and for the best collection matured in wooden barrels. But this year we are on the podium for the first time in the overall rating and have received a national honorary award in bronze ! This puts us among the 18 best wineries in the competition . And we're a little proud of that...
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.
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.
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.
