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Ecological Wine,
for the Environment, Your Health and for the Wine! After more than a decade of classical wine production, despite the already reduced level of spraying, I was suffering from worsened asthma, that almost forced me to give up my profession. This and
my increased sense of responsibility for the environment led to my decision, back in 1978, to start the transformation towards organic vine production, that was already completed by 1986. Our Weingut became the
"The First ecological Winery of Württemberg" and Member of the Bundesverband Ökologischer Weinbau (BÖW). Since then we operate according to the
stringent rules of the Bundesverband Ökologischer Weinbau. We do not
use artificial or synthetic herbicides and pesticides for spraying. Chemical-synthetic fertilizer or problematic wine treatments are also forbidden. Instead, we do:
- Preserve and increase the natural soil fertility through
green vineyards, natural fertilizer and gentle soil work.
Support and promote the wide variety of animals and plants indigeneous to the ecological system of our vineyard.
Reinstantiation of a largely closed production cycle.
Use environmentally friendly raw materials and wastes
Save materials and energy. Priority is on prevention.
After a transformation period of at least 3 years the following improvements can be achieved:
- Again, we have a large variety of happy plants and animals. It is a richness of species that keeps the soil healthy and protects the grapes against mildew and other ailments.
- Reduction of water and soil pollution by nitrates, phosphates and sprays
- Wines of high sensoric quality, more delicate aromas and a wider range of tastes.
- Healthier, naturally purer wines with a high level of matural minerals and vitamins.
By selecting an ‘ecovin wine’ you demonstrate your responsibility for the environment
and the nature. You now can enjoy delicious, natural wine as it has been produced very close to and together with ‘mother nature’.Producing ecological wines is more expensive because: more work is involved, natural
fertilizers and sprays are more expensive, and because of reduced quantity. Producing less wine from the same vineyard always increases quality. The amount of
high quality wines, ‘Prädikatsweine’, in ecological wineries is higher and the wines are also more dense.
W
e invite you to visit us on Sundays to walk through our vineyards to experience and discover the small miracles of Nature and vineyards in their natural growing
environment. Experience onsite an intact piece of nature. Discover wild plants that you have never seen in your life.
Dr. Uwe Schelling from the Landratsamt Waiblingen has studied our vineyards at the
nature monument Korber Kopf and at the Kleinheppacher Kopf. He has cataloged approximately 120 different wild plants including very rare ones that are threatened by
extinction. These include the Spurre (Holostum umbellatum) which is on the “Red List”. You can also find valuable varieties like the Meadow-Storchschnabel (1kg seeds
costs 600 Euro), Finkensame, Blutwurz and the culinary interesting, evergreen small Wiesenknopf. Follow the first ecological vineyard nature trail (Öko-Lehrpfad), which opened in 3. Oktober 1998, to find some of Nature’s small wonders. Visit us and enjoy a culinary
wine tasting in our house. 
Bundesverband Ökologischer Weinbau (BÖW)
Postfach 1261
55273 Oppenheim Tel.: 06133 925395
Fax : 06133 1609 We are a contracted winery of the Bundesverband Ökologischer Weinbau
Betriebsnr.: 1102A |
