Rheingau

You mentioned Jens Heinemeier now several times.

Jens has been very, for people who don't know him, he has a state in the Rheingau called Solvayse, also like a typical Danish female name or Scandinavian female name.

Somehow he has a Scandinavia affinity.

He has a love

Yeah, because we're so southern, we have this warm microclimate and we have these hot, dry summers.

Like you can, you could... compare us to a place in the south.

You could compare us to the Rheingau in Germany, even though it's much further south than us.

Like some of these vineyards that are a bit higher, we have such a strong mildew pressure here that you can call to the other winemakers and, ah, do you have problems? No, no, nothing, no problems.

hectares.

Okay, so a little bit like bigger than Rheingau, so to say.

And yes, it's really very, very difficult to find that one style of Riesling at the Nile region.

Because in every winery you have completely different Riesling styles because of the completely different soils.

By Bingen, okay, exactly.

So Bingen, the famous Rheinhessen city that is vis-a-vis Rüdesheim.

So there's a cross, Nahe, Rheinhessen, Rheingau, so to say, right? Yes, of course.

So a little bit like an idea where we are.

It's kind of surreal 'cause as you stand on Moraga Drive, you don't really see it, but as you come in and you're met with, with a wall of grapevines and then a massive hill full of them, I mean, it's, it's the most impressive thing you can see.

The only place I've seen with as steep a hills as this of planted vineyards is in the Rhine, uh, you know, in the Rheingau region where they basically got these trolleys coming up and down, you know, on tracks to pick the fruit up.

I mean, I've never seen anything in the New World like this, and it's just so impressive.

Wow.

And we're going to go all the way across here into this green area right here.

And a very famous area, the Rheinhessen, because we talk about, you know, the Rheingau and the Nath.

and the Mosel, but Rheinhessen right here flies under the radar and it is actually one of the largest areas for Weisbegunder, which is this particular grape.

A lot of people might not know, what is Weisbegunder? So basically it is German's version of what is Pinot Blanc.

It's a top level WCET, where you now have to identify not just country and grape, you have to identify region.

So then it would be, this is a Gewürztraminer from the French region or the German region, or this is a Riesling from the Rheingau.

This is a red wine from the right bank.

Wow.