Scarlet Mountain
The Scharlachberg is a 25 hectare vineyard and the most famous single vineyard in the Büdesheim district of the city of Bingen am Rhein in northern Rheinhessen (Rhineland-Palatinate). It is a site classified by the Association of German Predicate and Quality Wineries , which means that wines from this site can be marketed as “great growth”, provided that other quality criteria are met.
Location, climate, soil
The "Scharlachberg" vineyard extends north-northwest of Büdesheim. It is part of the large Sankt Rochuskapelle site in the Rheinhessen wine-growing region and is bounded to the west by the Nahe , to the north by the Bingen individual sites “Schlossberg-Schwätzerchen” and “Rosengarten” and to the east by the individual site “Bubenstück”.
The location is 110 to 200 m above sea level. NHN , the angle of incline is up to 36%. Because of the exposure from south-east to south, the incident sun is particularly beneficial for Riesling . The soil consists of quartzite and weathered slate rock with a high proportion of iron oxide pigments in the top layer. This scarlet pigmentation gave the location its name. Stony, sandy loam is also found.
The Riesling is in Scharlachberg preferred the grape variety . Cooling air currents come from the Hunsrück, which remove the moisture from the leaves, which promotes the health of the piglets and enables late harvest times.
history
The Scharlachberg was first mentioned in a document in 1248.
The chapter of the collegiate church in Bingen hands over a vineyard at the mill to the monastery Erbach against a vineyard called Scharlach (scarlachen).
Furthermore, an ordinance of the Mainz Stephansstift from 1697 is known, which demands:
"Prohibition to sell no sluggish or weingarth to a stranger in the Scharlachberg ..... We also order, want and order seriously to every subject and resident citizen that he or she has no sluggish or wild, located in the Scharlachberg, by no means to a foreigner Selling, confusing or swearing up should be reserved by us, but since something would happen to a mark out by inheritance, the fee should be dealt with fairly with him, however, no mark up, but the solution to our subjects and resident. "
Another regulation says that only Riesling should be planted in Scharlachberg and Amberg,
"Since the otherwise good profession of wines in Büdesheim has been somewhat reduced for the sake of it", because "bad grape vines" have been introduced and planted there. If bad sticks were to be put on in the future, they should "be hawked out again and the offender should be punished appropriately". "
In the same book, the Scharlachberg is mentioned in 1927 under wine names with wine locations and locations such as Laubenheimer, Bodenheimer, Nackenheimer, Niersteiner, Oppenheimer, Liebfraumilch, Binger Eifel, Ober-Ingelheimer and others. You are known "everywhere where Rhine wine is drunk in the world ." Years earlier, Johann Philipp Bronner praised the wine grown there in superlatives in his book published in 1834 on "Viticulture in the Province of Rheinhessen , in the Nahethal and Moselthal". The single location was already one of the highest-classified locations in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1848 . In 1898 the Cognac distillery Scharlachberg GmbH was founded in Bingen to benefit from this name. From the second half of the 1950s, cartoonist Loriot drew a number of advertising films for the Scharlachberg Meisterbrand produced there . In the still young Federal Republic of Germany, the figures with the distinctive bulbous nose finally made the wine-growing area well-known across the region.
possession
In the Scharlachberg, for example, the VDP wineries Weingut Prinz Salm and Weingut Kruger-Rumpf as well as Weingut Bischel ( Appenheim ), Riffel ( Büdesheim ), Vinothek & Weinschule Hemmes and Kommerzienrat PA Ohler'sches Weingut, as well as the Herbert Bretz winery.
swell
- Rheinhessenwein eV.
- State Office for Geology and Mining Rhineland-Palatinate
- Friedrich A. Cornelssen: The great book of German wine . Seewald Verlag 1977, ISBN 3-512-00416-4 .
- Hans-Jörg Koch: Weinparadies Rheinhessen ( German ). Verlag der Rheinhessische Druckwerkstätte / Alzey, 1982, ISBN 3-87854-029-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b VDP: Grosse Lagen Rheinhessen. Association of German Predicate and Quality Wineries , accessed on November 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Friedrich A. Cornelssen: The great book of German wine. Seewald Verlag, 1977, p. 91
- ↑ a b c Scharlachberg (single location Germany). Wein-Plus , accessed on November 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Meiningers Weinwelt, June 2012
- ↑ a b c The Rhine wines of Hesse: Rheinhessen and the Bergstrasse / published by the Hessian Viticulture Association, Oppenheim a. Rh. Corporation Hessischer Weinbau-Verband Published in Mainz: Zabern, 1927 Edition 2., Erw. Ed. Online ed. Koblenz: State Library Center Rhineland-Palatinate, 2011 size 244 pp.
- ^ Johann Philipp Bronner: Viticulture in the province of Rheinhessen, in the Nahethal and Moselthal Heidelberg, winter 1834
- ↑ horizont.net: On the death of Loriot: His best work as a commercial artist (Marco Saal)