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Grand Cru wines from Germany

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The Malterdinger Bienenberg is a vineyard that stands out steeply from the Rhine plain. The slope direction is from southeast to southwest. The vines are partly on small terraces and partly on the slight south-facing slope, which is still accessible with vineyard equipment. The fillet pieces of the Malterdinger Bienenberg are in the Willistein, Grabenberg and Atzlenberg tubs. More than 700 years ago, Cistercian monks from Burgundy cultivated Pinot Noir here. These monks found the same geological terroir here as in the Cote de Nuits - shell limestone weathered soil. This yellowish-reddish, partly very rocky soil due to iron deposition forces the vines to take root very deeply, and on the other hand this terroir gives off very useful trace elements and minerals to the grapes, which can be tasted in the wines. We also owe it to the high wine culture of these monks that today the Pinot Noir was named under the synonym "Malterdinger" in addition to the name Pinot Noir in grape variety books and various wine lexicons. Under this term, the wine was known and popular as far as Switzerland, the Allgäu and the Bavarian Danube Valley.

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