high turners

Once upon a time there were two boys from the Palatinate who sat at school together and dreamed of grapes. But it didn't just stay a dream: Both Otmar Graf and Volker Spiegel turned their dreams into reality. Otmar Graf, now senior boss at the Graf von Weyher winery, concentrated entirely on his Palatinate wines. His friend Volker Spiegel, on the other hand, specialized in distilling high-proof schnapps in a wide variety of flavors, because you can conjure up an astonishing number of different products based on grapes. The old friendship remained and was expanded into a business relationship, so that today eight very different strong schnapps are delivered in small barrels from the distillery to the winery and bottled there. The production process is similar: the fruits (mirabelle plums, Golden Delicious apples or Williams Christ pears) are first mashed so that they develop their aroma before they are carefully heated in the kettle and filled into the oak barrel as a distillate.
In the case of Gewürztraminer, the skin of the pressed grapes (the so-called pomace) is mixed with water to extract the last sweeteners before the pomace is fermented and then distilled.
The XO brandy requires patience because, like brandy, it is aged in oak barrels for ten years before it can be enjoyed.
The herbal trepel is popularly called the medicinal trepel because with its more than 50 herbs it has already cleared up one or two stomachs when people have overindulged a little.
Well, and then we are left with the strongest and the weakest power twister:
With 42% alcohol, Dunnerwetter deserves its name. It is distilled using the yeast that remains from the other production processes. This makes it a real upcycling product that has a lot to offer.
The vineyard peach is the sweet counterpart to the Dunnerwetter. It is a liqueur, sweeter than the schnapps and with its 18% alcohol at the lowest end of the strong liquor scale.
A friendship that bears such fruit is precious!