2024 Yellow Kleinberger

Location: A single find on the Bergstrasse. It also survived on the Nahe River, with Silvaner, Riesling, and Elbling in a blend. The oldest house vine on the Middle Mosel, approximately 350 years old, was a Kleinberger.

Grape variety: The history of Kleinberger - a 2500-year-old wine history
Imagine: When the Celts were still roaming Europe, the Trier tribe brought a special grape variety to the Moselle – the Kleinberger. With its small, aromatic grapes, it became the region's most important grape variety and shaped winemaking on the Moselle and Rhine for over 2,500 years.
But then, at the end of the 18th century, the Archbishop of Trier set in motion a revolution: In just a few years, he had all his vineyards converted to Riesling. No sooner had the conversion been completed than the French Revolution forced him to flee across the Rhine—but by then, he had already accomplished his winemaking revolution.
Thus ended the millennia-old era of Kleinberger. Today, we find only a few of these historic vines, but they remind us of a time when wine on the Moselle tasted quite different.

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