Weingut Paulinshof

The Jüngling family has owned Weingut Paulinshof since the mid-1960s and built it up over several decades. Today it is run by Oliver and Carina Jüngling, from the village of Kesten in the Middle Mosel.

The vineyards

The parcels lie in Kestener Paulinshofberg, Brauneberger Juffer, Brauneberger Juffer-Sonnenuhr and Brauneberger Kammer.

Kammer is a Lage im Alleinbesitz: the family owns the entire vineyard on its own. That is unusual in the Mosel, where a single site is normally divided between several growers, and it means everything that happens in that vineyard is one family’s decision, from pruning to picking date.

Slate, in three colours

The soil is slate throughout, but not the same slate. The producer describes it this way: lower down the slope it is blue-grey, while towards the upper edges it takes on red tints.

That difference is not only geology. The wine Vom Roten Schiefer comes from the red slate parcels, and the bronze-coloured stone in Kammer gave the label there its colour.

Kammer and Thomas Jefferson

Brauneberger Kammer was fought over long before anyone thought about marketing. Monasteries and counts disputed its ownership across centuries.

In 1788 Thomas Jefferson travelled through the Mosel, tasted the wine from Kammer and noted its quality in his diary. He was American minister to Paris at the time.

How they work

The slopes are steep enough that all work is done by hand, and the grapes are picked selectively. The Grosses Gewächs comes from old vines.

The Riesling Sekt is made by the traditional method, the same process as Champagne, and spends a long time on the fine lees before disgorgement.

We import Paulinshof because they cover the full range from dry Riesling to Spätlese and sparkling, from the same slate and the same hands. That makes it possible to build a flight showing the Mosel without changing producer along the way.