Winery Hess GbR

Pinot wines and sparkling wines at the Fleckenmauer

The single vineyard "Bürgel" is located by the famous Fleckenmauer. The vineyard was first noted in 1286 with the name "retro montem" (Latin: retro for behind, and mons for mountain). A hundred years later, in 1358, someone wrote down "uf dem berge"(engl. “on the mountain”), which became "Bürgel". Pinot grape varieties like Pinot Gris, Blanc and Noir grow especially well here. In addition to fertile loess and marl soil, the ochre-coloured limestone "terra fusca" is decisive for the quality. Not only for top wines, but also for sparkling wines. Therefore it is not surprising that the 1,100-metre-Fleckenmauer was built with limestone. It is the only medieval wall of this magnificence preserved in Rheinhessen.

• To the other individual sites of Dalsheim: Hubacker
• A former transmitter for starling defense has been converted into a lookout tower. Below: a typical Rheinhessen trullo. 

Once tended by women 

Nuns once owned vineyards here. Hence the name. Which nunnery was it? If you read the history of Mörstadt, many monasteries were present in turn. Lorsch Monastery, Worms Cathedral Abbey, Otterberg Abbey. But is one of these meant? And was it a pure nunnery or was it a double monastery (i.e. for monks and nuns), but exclusively the nuns owned and tended the vineyards? Many question marks. What is clear today is that both women and men can produce tasty wines. No matter what religion or creed they belong to. Burgundy, Chardonnay and many other grape varieties grow on loess and sandy soil in the Nonnengarten. 

> Other single vineyard sites that relate to women in the broadest sense: Nieder-Flörsheimer Frauenberg or Hesslocher Liebfrauenberg.

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