Address:
76835 Rhodt, Germany Show on map Show in places
76835 Rhodt, Germany Show on map Show in places
Phone:
Website:
www.weingut-waldkirch.de
Wineguide:
Weingut Felix Waldkirch
Info:
Our wine style is classic and restrained. Our wines convince with elegance, balance and their hearty Palatinate origin.
When it comes to "making" wine, we trust in very classic values: Wine culture, craftsmanship and feeling, time - and the renunciation of oenological frills.
We produce our grapes according to the guidelines of "controlled environmentally friendly viticulture". We do not use herbicides and, in almost all years, insecticides. Ripe and aromatic grapes with moderate yields are an important cornerstone of our philosophy.
The grapes are always harvested selectively and increasingly also by hand.
Nothing is more important for wine quality than the quality of the harvested grapes. That is what really counts in the later wine. In the cellar, it is all about preserving this quality and transforming it into wine.
That is why we process the grapes in the cellar using simple methods that have proven themselves over decades.
For white wine, they are crushed in a classic grape mill and then gently pressed with air pressure up to a maximum of 1.6 bar.
The must is clarified overnight by gravity.
Then it goes into our old vaulted cellar for fermentation.
A cornerstone of our vinification are small, thin-walled stainless steel tanks. We do not cool the must during fermentation. Through our old ventilation shafts, the outside air flows through our wine cellar and thus, depending on the vintage and weather, naturally influences the fermentation process and thus also the later wine.
The wine matures on its full lees until it is bottled, at least until spring of the following year.
We do not have early fillings. Grapes and time are our most important wine ingredients.
The red wine grapes are largely destemmed - that is, freed from the stems. Fermentation naturally takes place "on the skins". Pressing is done according to feeling and experience. The red wine always undergoes a second fermentation, the "biological acid reduction" and it is stored for several months...
When it comes to "making" wine, we trust in very classic values: Wine culture, craftsmanship and feeling, time - and the renunciation of oenological frills.
We produce our grapes according to the guidelines of "controlled environmentally friendly viticulture". We do not use herbicides and, in almost all years, insecticides. Ripe and aromatic grapes with moderate yields are an important cornerstone of our philosophy.
The grapes are always harvested selectively and increasingly also by hand.
Nothing is more important for wine quality than the quality of the harvested grapes. That is what really counts in the later wine. In the cellar, it is all about preserving this quality and transforming it into wine.
That is why we process the grapes in the cellar using simple methods that have proven themselves over decades.
For white wine, they are crushed in a classic grape mill and then gently pressed with air pressure up to a maximum of 1.6 bar.
The must is clarified overnight by gravity.
Then it goes into our old vaulted cellar for fermentation.
A cornerstone of our vinification are small, thin-walled stainless steel tanks. We do not cool the must during fermentation. Through our old ventilation shafts, the outside air flows through our wine cellar and thus, depending on the vintage and weather, naturally influences the fermentation process and thus also the later wine.
The wine matures on its full lees until it is bottled, at least until spring of the following year.
We do not have early fillings. Grapes and time are our most important wine ingredients.
The red wine grapes are largely destemmed - that is, freed from the stems. Fermentation naturally takes place "on the skins". Pressing is done according to feeling and experience. The red wine always undergoes a second fermentation, the "biological acid reduction" and it is stored for several months...
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