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From the
standpoint of chronology, the history of the oldest wine auction
association of the Mosel, Saar and Ruwer river |
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valleys can
be quickly told. On the other hand, the stories about the wine estates
that created that history would fill |
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volumes.
The Bernkasteler Ring has been committed to Riesling wine for more
than 100 |
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years. This
attitude has been
instrumental in giving the wines their distinctive character. That same
attitude is |
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manifestin the aspiration to make top-quality
wines that provide the Mosel with national and international prestige as
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of
the
best wine-growing regions in the world. |
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On the 29th
of April in 1899 the wine estate owners Schmitz, Thanisch, Geller,
Taprich, Schmitgen and Leutzgen |
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founded the
"Vereinigung der Weingutsbesitzer der Mittelmosel" (Association of Wine
Owners of the Middle Mosel) for |
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the purpose of "bringing their estate-grown and estate-bottled wines to auction in
Bernkastel". The articles of association |
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that were drawn up at that time still have validity today, emphasizing
that not the size of the wine estate is important, but |
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rather "the kind of grape (the Riesling), the excellence of the
vineyard location, and the carefulness of grape cultivation |
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and wine production". The wine estates at that time made
themselves subject to rigid self-imposed controls
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proper behaviour in the market. |
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1901 The
first auction took place in Bernkastel-Kues. In the following years -
with few exceptions – the auctions took |
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place
annually. Time and time again these auctions brought record prices.
1924
Wines of the vintage 1921 were |
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auctioned
by the bottle, and all auction wines were labelled with a uniform neck
label. 1952 The wines to be auctioned |
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were
required to pass through an internal qualifying test and were subjected
to pre-sampling by selected wine |
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commissioners.1997
Two dry berry selection wines achieved the highest price ever recorded
at an auction, |
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1400 German
Marks per bottle. 2003
a year of superlatives. One wine
estate of the Bernkasteler Ring achieved the |
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absolute
record of 331° Oechsle of must weight on the Oechsle
Scale, which measures the sugar content of
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