Pechstein

Pechstein
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Single location in the community forest (area Mittelhaardt-German Wine Route) in the German wine-growing area Palatine . The name suggests the black-colored Vulkanergussgestein basalt, which is about 40 million years risen as liquid magma from the Erdinnereren. The basalt stones on the surface going to a 19th Century to improve the soil back to usual form. It was then transported by a few hundred meters away basalt quarry gravel derived here and incorporated into the soil. The oriented to the south east vineyard in 120 to 160 meters above sea level with 10 to 15% gradient comprises 17 hectares of vines on sandstone weathered soils with sandy clay and basalt boulders on the surface and veins of basalt in the subsurface. Here is cultivated primarily the variety Riesling, the mineral wines provides. Shares in a position to have as the wineries , Bassermann-Jordan , Bürklin Wolf , JL Wolf , Kimich , Lucashof , Georg Mosbacher , , Reichsrat von Buhl , Karl Schaefer , , Estate of Winning .