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Wageck

Palatinate
Bissersheim, Germany

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For more than a century, the name Wageck has stood for quality viticulture in the small town of Bissersheim. Frank and Thomas Pfaffmann are now the fifth generation in charge of the winery in the northern Palatinate. This business is not satisfied with just good quality; Thomas Pfaffmann wants to be among Germany’s best producers and is well on course to achieving this aim.
His ambition inspires everything he does, starting with the vineyard sites where the soils are all laid on tertiary chalk. This gives the wines their fine minerality, adding a unique quality to the white and red wines: finesse. In these chalk-rich soils, this is particularly successful with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. For this reason, Thomas Pfaffmann planted old Pinot Noir and Chardonnay clones from Burgundy, which grow here to their best potential.
All vineyards are managed in harmony with nature and fertilised with horse manure. From the tertiary line upwards, all wines are spontaneously fermented, producing complex, multifaceted wines with a unique character.
The red wines mature in large and small wooden barrels, while the white wines are spontaneously fermented and matured in stainless steel tanks, half-size or barrique barrels.

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