DE: Pfalz Flashcards
Pfalz most planted grapes
- Riesling
- Dornfelder
- Muller-Thurgau
- Portugueser
~60% white, 40% red
Pfalz’s 2 bereich
- Mittelhaardt-Deutsche Weinstrasse
* most important - most major villages, producers, vyds - Sudliche Weinstrasse
Pfalz big wine festival
Wurstmarkt (“sausage market”). It happens every 2nd and 3rd weekend of October, drawing 600k visitors to Bad Durkheim.
This is the biggest wine festival in the world!
It centers around the biggest wine barrel in the world, located in the center of town.
Pfalz Climate
Continental; 49º
* 1800 sunshine hrs/yr
* ~ 32in rain/yr
* Haardt Hills = rain shadow; Rhine Plain = warm air
Pfalz VDP Grosse Lage varieties
Riesling
Spatburgunder
Weissburgunder
Pfalz village in France
Wissembourg
Pfalz “3 B’s”
Bassermann-Jordan
Reichsrat Von Buhl
Burklin-Wolf
- one vineyard that they all have in common - Forster Kirchenstuck
Pfalz soils
Like Alsace, complex & varied
* red sandstone foundation - key soil
* limestone, loess, basalt, clay found here and there
** characterized by the collapse of the Rhine Graben and shifting of rocks
Pfalz limestone villages vs sandstone villages
Limestone: Kallstadt, Ungestein, Bad Durkheim
Sandstone: Wachenheim to Gimmeldingen
Gaisböhl
Ruppertsberg; Burklin-Wolf monopole
Herrenberg
Ungestein; “Lord’s Hill”
* SOILS: limestone, loess
* Vogelsang sector known for Pinot varieties
Diedesheim
Pfalz; Most GL sites of any village (6)
1. Langenmorgen (e-facing)
2. Paradiesgarten (e-facing)
3. Hohenmorgen
4. Kieselberg
5. Grainhübel
6. Kalkofen
- soils vary but sandstone is a key feature
Bäd Durkheim
Pfalz; home of the Wurstmarkt. Germany’s biggest wine fair.
1 VDP GL: Durkheimer Michaelsberg
Birkweiler
Key village in S. Pfalz (Sudliche Weinstrasse bereich)
* Kastanienbusch (chestnut bush)
* Mandelburg (almond hill)
Forst
key village in the Pfalz
5 Grosse Lage:
1. Kirchenstück
2. Jesuitgarten
3. Freundstuck
4. Ungeheuer
5. Pechstein
soils: basalt, limestone, sandstone, clay