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 (3)
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 Grosse Lage
Pfalz; Most GL sites of any village (6). Only Forst and Ungestein rival quality.
- Langenmorgen (e-facing)
- Paradiesgarten (e-facing)
- Hohenmorgen
- Kieselberg
- Grainhübel
- Kalkofen
- soils vary but sandstone is a key feature
- position in Haardt foothills lend shelter and east facing slopes
Bäd Durkheim
Pfalz; home of the Wurstmarkt. Germany’s biggest wine fair.
1 VDP GL: Durkheimer Michaelsberg
Birkweiler - where, top vineyards?
Key village in S. Pfalz (Sudliche Weinstrasse bereich)
* Kastanienbusch (chestnut bush)
* Mandelburg (almond hill)
Forst
- top vineyards
key village in the Pfalz
5 Grosse Lage:
1. Kirchenstück
2. Jesuitgarten
3. Freundstuck
4. Ungeheuer
5. Pechstein
soils: basalt, limestone, sandstone, clay
Forster Kirchenstück
- soils, producers
Pfalz top vineyard site
3.71ha; 5 - 10% slope. 120 - 150M. Gentle slope.
SOILS: sandy clay, clay marl, loam, limestone rubble, basalt
HYPE: ranked in highest category in 1828 Bavarian classification.
RIESLING
- Von Winning, Bassermann-Jordan, Reichsrat von Buhl, Dr. Burklin-Wolf
Ruppertsberg top sites
Gaisbohl (Birklin-Wolf monopole)
Reiterpfad
Speiss
Southernmost village in Pfalz
Schweigen
Pfalz VDP Grosse Lage Monopoles
- Ruppertsberg Gaisbohl - Dr. Burklin-Wolf
- Haardt Bürgergarten Im Breumel - Muller-Catoir
Ganz Horn im Sonnenschein
Special parcel of Siebeldinger Im Sonnenschein
*faces west, in a side valley
Important villages in Pfalz Mittelhaardt
Kallstadt
Ungestein
Forst
Diedesheim
Ruppertberg
Gimmeldingen
Important villages in Pfalz Sudliche area
Schweigen
Birkweiler
Burrweiler
Siebeldingen
Material for Pfalz walled vineyards
built from sandstone
Ökonomierat Rebholz
Siebeldingen, (Südliche) Pfalz
* Ökonomierat = agricultural counselor, title bestowed by German govt
Dr. Bürklin-Wolf
Wachenheim, Pfalz
* largest family-owned estate in DE
* monopoles - Ruppertsberger Gaisböhl, Wachenheimer Rechbächel
Reichsrat von Buhl
Deidesheim, Pfalz
Geheimer Rat Dr. von Bassermann-Jordan
Diedesheim, Pfalz
Muller-Catoir
Kallstadt, Pfalz
Monopole: Bürgergarten ‘Im Breumel
Von Winning
Deidesheim, Pfalz
Friedrich Becker
Schweigen, Pfalz
* vineyards in DE & FR. Focus on Pinot varieties
Koehler-Ruprecht
Kallstadt, Pfalz
* Kallstadt Saumaugen - top site
* left the VDP over their use of Pradikat + trocken designations
