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Good vibes in the historic, vaulted cellar:
Bernd and Andreas Spreitzer of Weingut Spreitzer
mostly calcareous”. It is loess with an
admixture of gravel that dominates there.
In its upper reaches you will find loessloam
with quartzite debris and inclusions
of red shale. The soils that the “Berglage”
cliché proliferates are present in exactly
those places Dünkelberg left blank in his
classification. In the far west of the
Johannisberg – classified by the VDP
today – you will find quartzite with
inclusions of shale, plus loess-loam with a
slight admixture of sand, loess-loam with
admixtures of quartzite debris and partial
inclusions of red shale. In total: “medium
to deep soil, dry to fresh, mostly
non-calcareous.”
What does that tell us? That both
Dünkelberg and the VDP had valid
reasons for their respective decisions. The
finding of Dünkelberg’s classification
RHEINGAU WINE REGION
Growing area
approx. 3100 hectares
Administrative Split
1 district (Bereich), 11 collective sites
(Grosslage), 129 single sites (Einzellagen)
Soils
Quartzite, gravel, loam, loess
Important Grape Varieties
Riesling, Spätburgunder
Winegrowers’ Association
Rheingauer Weinwerbung GmbH
Kloster Eberbach-Pfortenhaus
www.kulturland-rheingau.de
440 falstaff Wine Guide Germany 2021