Monopoly (wine)

A monopoly is an officially classified single vineyard that only belongs to a single owner. Examples of this can be found in Burgundy , where the La Tâche and Romanée-Conti sites are wholly owned by the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti winery , or in Germany , where the Brudersberg site comes from the Heyl zu Herrnsheim winery and the Walporzheimer Gärkammer only comes from the winery JJ Adeneuer is managed.

In the case of classified sites, several wineries usually share ownership of a site. Exceptions are rounded locations, such as B. also the Ingelheimer Weingut Schloss Westerhaus , Schloss Johannisberg in the Rheingau or the Weingut Karthäuserhof on the Ruwer.

literature

• Clive Coates : The wines of Burgundy . 1st edition. University of California Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-520-25050-5 .
• Jancis Robinson : The Oxford Wine Lexicon . 1st edition. Gräfe and Unzer Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-7742-0914-6 .