Heinz Pfaffmann winery
| Heinz Pfaffmann winery | ||
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 Archway to the inner courtyard |
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| place | Walsheim | |
| Architectural style | Renaissance | |
| Construction year | 1616 | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 14 '8.6 " N , 8 ° 7' 33" E | |
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The Heinz Pfaffmann winery is a winery in Walsheim in the Palatinate wine-growing region and the largest organic winery in Germany.
description
The trained winemaker and viticulture technician Gustav Pfaffmann took over the management of the family winery in the southern Palatinate in 1972. With around 160 hectares of vineyards in twelve municipalities, the company is one of the largest private wine-growing businesses in Germany and the largest organic winery. The annual production volume of the winery with 60 employees is about 15,000 hl .
In 2016, 5% of the products were sold directly to private customers, another 5% were sold through specialist retailers, 30% through food retailers and 40% through wholesalers, and 20% of production was exported. In 2019, Moselland eG took over sales for the food trade.
The winery has been working according to Bioland guidelines since 2013 and since 2016 all Pfaffmann wines have been sold with the Bioland seal.
Grape varieties
25 grape varieties are grown , 60% white and 40% red wines. The main grape variety of the winery is Riesling with 25% of the area , followed by Sauvignon Blanc , Pinot Gris and Merlot with 15% each. Auxerrois , Chardonnay , Kerner , Müller-Thurgau (Rivaner), Scheurebe , Silvaner and Pinot Blanc account for a smaller proportion of the vineyard area , and for the red varieties , Frühburgunder , Lemberger , Blauer Portugieser , Schwarzriesling and St. Laurent .
history
In 1616, the winegrowing families Baumüller and Brodbeck, who came from Franconia, settled in Walsheim and founded the estate. Due to the good location, the safe construction as a Franconian homestead with only one archway and an 18 meter deep well located on the site, the estate was largely able to survive the Thirty Years' War without damage. The Renaissance archway, numbered to the year 1616, is listed and listed in the register of cultural monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the 18th and 19th centuries the border region Palatinate was marked by wars and the estate became self-sufficient in terms of wine, fruit, vegetable and arable farming as well as cattle breeding. This orientation as a classic mixed operation existed until 1965. From 1965 the company specialized in viticulture and pressing . Today the family winery, which has been in the family for 17 generations, is one of the largest private wine-growing companies in Germany.
Web links
- Weingut Heinz Pfaffmann Website of the company
- meininger.de Overview of award-winning products
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry at falstaff.de
- ↑ Rolf Sperber: Gustav Pfaffmann from Walsheim relies on ecological production in his 400-year-old winery. In: Bürstadter Zeitung. May 28, 2016, accessed April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Profile: Heinz Pfaffmann Winery. In: The Rhine Palatinate. April 28, 2016, accessed April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Moselland with a new cooperation partner. In: DWM aktuell. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ^ Judith Hörle: Weingut Heinz Pfaffmann from Walsheim is now the largest organic winery in Germany. In: The Rhine Palatinate. December 27, 2016, accessed April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Heinz Pfaffmann winery. German Wine Institute , accessed on April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Informational directory of cultural monuments. Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage, February 6, 2020, accessed on May 22, 2020 .