Weingut Mönchhof
100% Riesling since 1804
About the winery
Ürziger Würzgarten: This is the only vineyard in the whole wine growing region that has a volcanic soil in combination with red slate soil (rhyolithe). The red slate soil you can only find in this part of the Mosel valley. The Mönchhof estate is surrounded by the Würzgarten vineyard. Ürzig is the village name and Würzgarten the name of the single vineyard. It means “spicy garden”. It produces wines, which show deep complexity, exotic flavors and of course a varity of spices. What is although special about the vineyard are the extremely old vines. While most European vineyards were destroyed by phylloxera in the 1860, the vineyards in the Middle Mosel region survived because of their rocky soil, where the small insect could not get in to eat the roots of the vines. So today you find some of the world oldest vines in this region and Mönchhof have vines that are up to 100 years old.
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Location
Mosel
History & Geography
The Mönchhof (the “Monks House or Monks Court”), formerly a possession of the Cistercian Abbey at Himmerod, is one of the oldest wine estates in the Mosel valley. As early as 1177 documents from Pope Alexander III show the abbey owned vineyards in and around the village of Ürzig. After the secularization period the Eymael family purchased the estate from Napoleon in 1804 at an auction in Paris. The Mönchhof’s first class vineyards are comprised of the very steep Ürzig Würzgarten, Erden Treppchen and a core holding in one of the most prized jewels in the Mosel valley, the Erden Prälat vineyard. They are planted 100 % to Riesling, all with original rootstocks. Archeological digs in the Erden Treppchen vineyard uncovered one of the oldest and largest wine presses north of the Alps. This facility documents that viticulture in the villages of Ürzig and Erden was already viable in Roman times over 2000 years ago.
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