From Importer Vom Boden: Formerly named “Felsenfest”, Vollenweider’s entry-level dry wine from slate soils in steep-slope vineyards in and around the village of Traben-Trarbach. The fruit for this wine comes from three sites—the Wolfer Goldgrube where the estate has the...

From Importer Vom Boden: From the same parcel as the classic Goldgrube Kabinett. However, within this site lies an extraordinary mosaic of tiny sub-parcels—some no larger than 100 square meters—shaped over generations by our predecessors, who cultivated and planted them...

From Importer Vom Boden: The Spätlese is from different parcels within the Wolfer Goldgrube. This vintage comes from the Portz (80%) sector of the vineyard, a south-west facing and higher up the hill vineyard, lending it depth, complexity, and a finely...

From Importer Vom Boden: Goldgrube “Unterste Jonspfad,” meaning “under the path of Jon,” referring to the path (you can still see) that runs through the vineyard down to where the ferry used to be. This is the western-most site in...

From Importer Vom Boden: The word Schöttel comes from the German word “Schüttung,” meaning scree or debris, referring to the massive stone cliff overhead and the rather-too-constant barrage of rocks that shower down from it into the vineyard. Here the...

From Importer Vom Boden: “Im Reiler” aligns, more or less, with the Goldgrube Grand Cru the estate has been bottling for some years. This is the parcel that sits more or less around the sundial in the vineyard. It has never...

From Importer Vom Boden: When possible, the estate bottles an “Im Reiler” wurzelecht – meaning sourced completely from the oldest, ungrafted vines in the vineyard, a living mosaic of vine ages, including plants well over 150 years old alongside others...