Wine, Yard, Cellar, Press
Here you can read some interesting facts about wine, the cellar and pressing. Basically, we write down everything we talk about with our guests here. It often centres on our region, the landscape, the terroir and the people who live and work here.
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Weißburgunder (Pinot blanc)
Weißburgunder, also known as Weißer Burgunder, Pinot Blanc or Klevner, is a white grape variety. It most probably originates from Burgundy.
Federweisser - new white wine
Federweisser is the German term for new white wine. It is a grape must pressed from white grape varieties whose fermentation has only just begun. All degrees of maturity, from white grape must to almost fully fermented white wine, may be called Federweisser. However, Federweißer must have a minimum alcohol content of 4% when sold in Germany.
Auxerrois
Auxerrois belongs to the Burgundy family and is a natural cross between Pinot and Pinot Blanc.
Cabernet blanc
This is a fairly new grape variety among those cultivated in Germany, having only been bred in 1991.
Wine-growing region Saale-Unstrut
We endeavour to present our guests in our ‘Friedrich’ a comprehensive cross-section of the wines produced in the region. Our region is the Saale-Unstrut wine-growing region: small but beautiful, very young in modern times, yet with a very long history - that is the Saale-Unstrut wine-growing region.
Gutedel
The white Chasselas (german Gutedel) grape variety is certainly very, very old and is definitely one of the oldest of all grape varieties. The German capital of Chasselas is located in the Markgräferland region (between Freiburg i. Br. and the border with Switzerland).
Silvaner
The Silvaner grape variety is one of the oldest grape varieties in Europe. It probably originates from Austria. It has been native to Germany since the 17th century. It is a natural cross between Traminer and Austrian white.
Riesling
Riesling is a white grape variety that is generally a flagship of German viticulture. Germany is almost certainly the country of origin. Even today, almost half of the world's total acreage is located in Germany. The grape variety has been cultivated in Germany for at least 600 years (first mentioned in writing in Worms in 1402 1435*).
Morio Muscat
The white grape variety Morio Muscat was bred by Peter Morio in 1928. Morio, who worked at the Geilweilerhof Institute for Grapevine Breeding, claimed that Silvaner and Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc) were the parents of the cross. However, this did not stand up to DNA analyses carried out in 2012.
Bacchus
This white grape variety Bacchus was not named after the Roman god of wine Bacchus for nothing. Bacchus is a favourite wine. The cross between Silvaner and Riesling and Müller Thurgau was bred in 1933 by Peter Morio and Bernhard Husfeld at the Geilweilerhof Institute for Vine Breeding.
Helios variety
Helios, the name of the sun god in ancient Greece. The grape variety that bears this divine name has nothing to do with Greece, nothing to do with gods apart from the name, at most something to do with the sun. It is a new development from Germany.
What is actually a Cuvée?
The term cuvée is used very differently internationally in different regions, which can lead to some confusion. The word cuvée is derived from the French cuve and means vat, fermenter or tank.
