Winery Dr. Wehrheim
The Dr. Wehrheim is a family-owned winery in the municipality of Birkweiler in the Southern Wine Route district . The property was built in 1902 and was originally conceived as a national product wholesaler before it was ultimately converted into a winery.
history
In 1902 a family member, Fritz Müller, moved to Siebeldingen and built the house right next to the Siebeldingen-Birkweiler train station . The architect of the Art Nouveau house, Arndt Hartung, designed the "Villa Schwarz" in Landau and the "Sonnenhof" in Siebeldingen. The place offered plenty of space for agricultural trade and viticulture and had a good infrastructure due to the adjacent train station. In 1920 Karl Wehrheim bought the house and started farming, gradually focusing on viticulture. The house offered good aging and storage facilities for the wine due to the deep cellar with even temperatures.
After the Second World War , his son Heinz Wehrheim began studying general agricultural sciences at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart and joined his parents' business. At the end of the 1940s, the barrel wine business was converted to bottle wine marketing. At that time the winery was still called "Weingut Hohenberg". In 1974 Karl Wehrheim died and Heinz Wehrheim ran the business alone until his son Karl-Heinz Wehrheim and his wife Ulrike Wehrheim joined the company in 1984. Karl-Heinz Wehrheim also studied general agricultural sciences in Stuttgart / Hohenheim. During this time, the name of the winery was changed, the name of the family moved into focus as the brand name and the brand has since been called “Dr. Wehrheim ". The component "Dr." comes from Heinz Wehrheim, who wrote his doctorate on the influence of land consolidation on the working hours per hectare of vines.
Since 1991 the winery has been a member of the Association of German Predicate and Quality Wineries and is part of the association “Five Wineries - Five Friends”, a cooperation of five wineries in the southern Palatinate. The winery was one of the first wineries in the region to be invited to the Association of German Predicate and Quality Wineries (VDP).
winery
The winery specializes in classic grape varieties. The acreage is now 17 ha and the average hectare yield is 5000 l. The most important grape varieties are Riesling , Pinot Blanc and Pinot Noir, which together make up around 80% of the grape variety. Sweet wines are also produced at times.
Terroir
The Dr. Wehrheim is one of the so-called " terroirists ". Karl-Heinz Wehrheim began in 1999, as one of the first winegrowers in Germany, to develop "terroirrein" wines. The winery planted vines on red sandstone residual soil , limestone , Permian and Keuper -floor. Rieslings are produced from the red sandstone and the Rotliegend as well as Burgundy from the red sandstone and shell limestone.
Locations
The most famous locations of the winery are the Kastanienbusch, the Mandelberg and the Rosenberg.
Chestnut bush
The chestnut bush is one of the most famous individual layers on the southern wine route. The name originated from the many chestnut trees. The chestnut bush lies west of Birkweiler. The location consists of a valley basin, which is protected to the west by the slopes of the Hohenberg from the cool air currents from the Palatinate Forest at night. To the east, the Taschberg, a hill planted with vineyards, forms a natural transition to the village. The vineyards are up to 320 m above sea level and are up to 40% steep.
Since this is one of the highest geological elevations in the Palatinate Forest , the soil conditions are very different. Three different soils emerge through a mountain floe that rotated with tectonic plate movement: On the one hand the "red sandstone weathered soil" and the "Muschelkalk", which both come from the Triassic and on the other hand is the Rotliegend, which is caused by the "red slate “And comes from the Permian , to be found in the chestnut bush. The Rieslings of the winery grow on the head of the chestnut bush on the "Köppel" (red sandstone weathered soil) and in the middle tub on the Rotliegend. A rarity is above all the Rotliegend with "red slate" which is rarely found in the Palatinate.
Almond Mountain
The Almond Mountain is located south of Birkweiler. To the west it is protected from the natural cold of the Palatinate Forest by the "Kienenwäldchen" a mountain that is planted with chestnuts. To the east, the Mandelberg opens up towards the Rhine plain. The Almond Mountain is a south-southeast slope, and therefore enjoys optimal sunlight. The vineyard has a slope of about 15-20% and is about 220 m above sea level. The soil in the Mandelberg is a shell limestone that was created in the Triassic era. The small white limestones with which this soil is littered store the heat of the sun during the day and release this heat to the earth at night. The limestone soil with its active lime content is a prerequisite for producing large Burgundy wines.
Awards
- 4 grapes in Gault Millau
- FFFF from Der Feinschmecker
- 4 stars from Eichelmann Germany's wines
- 4 stars from Wein-Plus
literature
- Stuart Pigott, Andreas Durst, Ursula Heinzelmann, Chandra Kurt, Manfred Lüer, Stephan Reinhardt: Wine speaks German . 1st edition. Scherz Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-502-19000-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c vicampo.de: Franz Wehrheim from the Dr. Portrait of Wehrheim . Retrieved November 20, 2013 .
- ↑ winemakers list of VDP , accessed September 8, 2011
- ↑ Dr. Wehrheim at five winegrowers - five friends
- ↑ pfalz.de: Weingut Dr. Wehrheim in Birkweiler . Retrieved November 20, 2013 .
- ↑ a b belvini.de: Weingut Dr. Wehrheim . Retrieved November 20, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Terroir: soil that can be tasted. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
- ^ Die Lage Birkweiler Mandelberg ( Memento from August 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 6, 2011