Disibodenberg winery
The winery Disibodenberg (until March 2019 Weingut Klostermühle Odernheim ) is a winery in the growing area near near the mouth of the glans into the close .
history
The Disibodenberg winery , located near Odernheim , was created in the high Middle Ages as an external farm of the Disibodenberg monastery on the southern slopes of the mountain of the same name. The Cistercian monastery gained cultural and historical importance because the mystic Hildegard von Bingen lived there for over thirty years. In addition, Cistercian monks have generally shaped viticulture in Germany , because according to the rules of the Cistercian order , each monastery had to have its own vineyard. Due to the secularization of the monastery during the Reformation , the mill with the vineyards came into the possession of the Dukes of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . The oldest grapevine in Germany from the 16th century was found in the neighborhood a few years ago. A listed vineyard house from 1811, in which medieval spoil was used, belongs to the winery .
From the middle of the 18th century to 1992, the estate was privately managed by the Schmidt family from Odernheim, who expanded the winery and the associated vineyard property considerably since the late 1960s. Although it was still unusual at the close, the focus was from that time on Burgundy grape varieties , especially the Pinot Noir ( Pinot Noir ). Today is the vineyard Mont Fort , the oldest and largest burgundy mounting position close to the in the 1970s under the direction of Fritz Ritter, head of the Institute of Viticulture in Geisenheim , was created with different Pinot Noir clones.
present
Since 1992 the Berlin lawyer Christian Held, born in Meisenheim am Glan, has been managing the winery as a personally liable partner. In 1997 the other managing director Thomas Zenz took over the operational management of the company. The cultivated areas were then doubled to 13 hectares and a sparkling wine production facility was set up. The vineyard's locations are Kloster Disibodenberg, Montfort and Kapellenberg. The draisine route on the former Glantalbahn leads directly past the Disibodenberg winery. In 2018, more extensive vineyards on Disibodenberg were taken over by the von Racknitz family, thereby expanding the total area under cultivation to around 23 hectares. As a result of the expansion, the name was changed to Disibodenberg winery in March 2019 . In addition, an energy-efficient general renovation of the winery building, which dates from the 1960s, took place.
A few years ago, in the small town of Meisenheim, about ten kilometers to the south, in an aristocratic estate from the 15th century, which was originally owned by the Boos von Waldeck family , the wine sales and tasting and, as a kind of offshoot of the winery, the Boos von Waldecksche Hofbrennerei founded.
The wine hotel and restaurant “Meisenheimer Hof” also has a close personal and business relationship with the Disibodenberg winery. In June 2016, the "Kochhaus" was opened as its branch in a historic Biedermeier house at Marktgasse 5 in Meisenheim, which partly dates from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Awards
The winery is listed with two grapes in the Gault Millau wine guide . The 2009 Montfort Pinot Brut was named Sparkling Wine of the Year by Stuart Pigott in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 2012. The 2009 Silvaner was named "Wine of the Month" by Pigott in July 2010. In addition, according to Falstaff, the 2009 Pinot Noir Montfort »U. b. F. «(“ Our best barrel ”) of the winery took first place in a regional competition. In its anniversary edition ( 40 years of Feinschmecker , October 2015), “Der Feinschmecker” honored a sparkling wine from Odernheim as a “sparkling hero”. According to “Der Feinschmecker” 12/2016, the best 2015 Pinot Blanc came from Disibodenberg.
Web links
- Homepage of the Disibodenberg winery
- Website of the André Macionga wine shop
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Falstaff, German Pinot Noir Prize 2011. Accessed on October 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Description of the Glantal Draisinentour on wiki-voyage . Retrieved November 5, 2016.
- ↑ Holger Klein: energy-efficient. Heating system. With a pilot project, the Klostermühle an der Nahe winery and the heating technology specialist Viessmann are showing how a wine-growing business can be supplied with energy in as climate-neutral a manner as possible. In: Der Deutsche Weinbau , 20/2018, p. 14 f .; Report in Opus Kulturmagazin , August 20, 2018.
- ↑ Boos von Waldeckscher Hof on the site of the city of Meisenheim . Retrieved October 29, 2016.
- ↑ Eberhard J. Nikitsch (arrangement): Die insschriften des Landkreis Bad Kreuznach , Wiesbaden 1993, p. 297.
- ↑ Klostermühle winery in Odernheim. Gault-Millau, accessed on March 5, 2017 .
- ↑ "Sparkling Wine of the Year" (FAZ). Retrieved October 18, 2015 .
- ↑ "Wine of the Month July 2010" (Stuart Pigott). Retrieved October 27, 2015 .