Pfeffingen winery

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Pfeffingen manor house, seat of the winery

The Pfeffingen-Fuhrmann-Eymael winery is located in Bad Dürkheim-Pfeffingen in the Palatinate wine-growing region in Germany .

description

The family business is run by the winemaker and graduate engineer. for viticulture and oenology Jan Eymael and covers 17 hectares of vineyards. The main grape varieties in the white wine sector are Riesling , Pinot Blanc , Chardonnay and Gewürztraminer . As a specialty, the Scheurebe is grown and vinified in all flavors. In addition, the red Riesling, which has been recultivated for the whole of Rhineland-Palatinate in the Pfeffingen winery, plays a key role. The most important red wines of the family winery are Pinot Noir and Merlot . The vineyards are mainly found in the Ungsteiner Herrenberg, Ungsteiner Weilberg and Ungsteiner Nussriegel sites and are characterized by a high proportion of lime. The Ungsteiner Weilberg is also a rarity. This is the soil type Terra Rossa (colloquially "red earth"), which has a high proportion of oxidized iron and causes the red color of the soil. The company is a member of the Association of German Predicate and Quality Wineries .

The products of the Pfeffingen winery are rated in the Gault Millau wine guide and by the wine critic Eichelmann .

history

Stone coffins in the courtyard of the winery

In 1827 the Dürkheim merchant Johannes Fitz bought the hamlet of Pfeffingen with the ancient, abandoned St. Peter's Church and the cemetery next to it. In 1828 he had the church demolished and the rectory expanded and converted into the manor house that still exists today. Fitz founded a winery here and planted vineyards. Valentin Schnell acquired the estate on April 21, 1931. In 1952, Karl Fuhrmann and his wife Helene took over his father-in-law's winery. From 1991 daughter Doris Eymael geb. Fuhrmann and since 2002 their son Jan Eymael the traditional family winery. The classicist mansion built by Johannes Fitz is still the headquarters of the company. Several stone coffins found here as well as a boundary stone of the Weissenburg Abbey are set up in the courtyard of the property .

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the winery ( Memento from November 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Gault-Millau website )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gaultmillau.de
  3. ↑ Eichelmann website
  4. ↑ Die Pfalz am Rhein , year 1984, p. 35; (Detail scan)

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 13 ″  N , 8 ° 10 ′ 35 ″  E