Verband Deutscher Prädikats- und Qualitätsweingüter

The Association of German predicate and quality wineries eV (VDP ) is an association of about 200 top wineries in Germany, for binding quality standards and - used also for the ecological management of the wineries of its members - since 1990.

History

The association was founded in 1910 as the Association of German Nature wine auctioneer eV. The first chairman was Albert of Bruchhausen, Mayor of the city of Trier. Founding clubs were:

• Association of natural wine - auction the Rhine Palatinate founded in 1908
• Association Rheingau vineyard owner, founded in 1897 in Rüdesheim am Rhein
• Trier association of vineyard owners of the Mosel, Saar and Ruwer founded, 1908
• Club Baden natural wine auctioneer founded, 1910
• Association of natural wine auctioneer in Hesse founded, 1900

The term natural wine should emphasize the particular standard that under the former Act had the wine wines which do not consciously shared the then common practice of adding sugar to increase the natural alcoholic strength. The Registry of Associations was, however, only 1926. Beginning of the 20th century, German wines were in great demand worldwide and were often more expensive than the still famous wines of the example great Chateaux of Bordeaux.

1934, the club was incorporated as part of the Nazi Gleichschaltung policy in the " Reichsnährstand ". In 1935 a second Constitution was approved, the advanced the goals of the association and concretized:

• Regulation of conditions of Sale and Dates
• Joint advertising
• Exhibitions at home and abroad
• Exchange of experience in the wine and in the wine treatment

The Second World War interrupted the work of the Association; wine sales came in large part to a halt because Jewish wine merchants were very important for the sale. Only in 1949 he took by Albert Biirklin his work formally again. 1955, the first vintage wine auction took place in Wiesbaden. The rules were tightened in the following years, however, brought the wine law of 1971 a severe setback for the club, which had to be renamed in association German predicate wine auctioneer eV ( VDPV ) to take account of the wine law. In particular, the exclusive definition of wine quality by Oechsle and the divisional or regional sites - regulation should facilitate the work in the following large-scale producers and allow for the customer externally visible qualities disappear.

Under Peter Weymarn of the association changed its name to the current name. He also turned into an association of wineries. The organization of wine auctions pushed into the background. A change in statutes directed in 1972 the Association of German VDP ( variable data printing ) renamed club on image building and promotion of the quality pursuit of. In 1978, Erwein Count Matuschka Greiffenclau the Presidency, in 1982 it was renamed the Association of German predicate and quality wineries.

From 1990, under Michael Prinz zu Salm- Salm, the VDP and thus its members were sworn to organic wine growing and asked to changed the operating practice. From 1994, no large-scale situations designations longer be used, and from the predicate read hand reading is mandatory. In 2002, the General Assembly adopted Rules for Classification of First growths and Grand Crus.

The President of the Association of German VDP ( variable data printing ) since 2007 Steffen Christmann. In May 2012, the federal office of the Association moved to the listed wine storage building of the former customs and inland port in the city of Mainz.

Also in 2012, adopted the members unanimously approved a new classification to define the quality of the origin and do not like the wine law of 1971 it changed, after the must weight ( degree Oechsle ). The classification comprises a 4 level pyramid - in some regions only 3 steps - starting with the VDP.GUTSWEINEN, VDP.ORTSWEINEN, VDP.ERSTE LOCATION and LOCATION VDP.GROSSE. In the 3-level regions there is no VDP.ERSTE SITUATION. The VDP.GROSSE GREENHOUSE is the best dry wine from a VDP.GROSSEN SITUATION. The aim is that really the only outstanding documents will be named on the label. The wine law of 1971 reduced the list of documents of the past 30,000 documents in 4000 wholesale and retail locations. A " Piesporter Michel mountain" is such a big location, which implies that the wine comes from a small location, although this covers approximately 1,500 hectares and thus has no explanatory power. The classification also has the use of predicate names - only approved for fruit and sweet wines - Cabinet, Spätlese, Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, Eiswein. Thus, these names get back their original meaning, which they had before the wine law of 1971. About the option of entering the old cadastral names and additionally protected designations of origin, the winemakers are their positions can further split and only the true fillets call VDP.GROSSE SITUATION. With three new admissions, the number of VDP Mitgliedsberiebe 2014 grew to over 200

President of the Association

Wineries

The following wineries are members of the Association (as of 2014):

Ahr:

• Winery Adeneuer
• Deutzerhof
• Winery Kreuzberg
• Weingut Meyer- Näkel
• Weingut Nelles
• Rotweingut Jean Stodden

Baden:

• Winery Margrave of Baden
• Weingut Bercher
• Weingut Blankenhorn
• Staatsweingut Freiburg & Blankenhornsberg
• Weingut Burg Ravensburg
• Weingut Freiherr von and Franckenstein
• Weingut Dr. Heger
• Winery Heitlinger
• Winery Imperial Count and Marquis Hoensbroech
• Weingut Bernhard Huber
• Weingut Franz Keller
• Weingut Stadt Lahr
• Weingut Andreas Laible
• Winery Lämmlin - Schindler
• Weingut Schloss Neuweier
• Weingut Burg Ravensburg
• Winery Salwey
• Private Weingut H. Schlumberger
• Weingut Stigler

• Weingut Johann Arnold
• Weingut Wilhelm Arnold
• Weingut Bickel - Stumpf
• Civil Hospital of the Holy Spirit
• Princely Castell'sches Domänenamt
• Weingut Michael Fröhlich
• Weingut Rudolf Fürst
• The State Hofkeller Würzburg
• Winery Höfler
• Juliusspital
• Weingut Stadt Klingenberg - Benedict Baltes
• Weingut A. F. Kreglinger
• Winery Prince Lowenstein
• Weingut Rudolf May
• Roth winery
• Weingut Johann Ruck
• Weingut Horst Sauer
• Winery Rainer Sauer
• Weingut Egon Schäffer
• Weingut Schmitt 's Kinder
• Vineyard Richard Schmitt
• Weingut Graf von Schönborn
• Winery Schwab
• Weingut Schloss Sommerhausen
• Weingut am Stein
• Weingut Josef Störrlein
• Weingut Wolfgang Weltner
• Weingut Hans Wirsching
• Winery tithe

Hessian Mountain Road:

• Hessian State Kloster Eberbach

Middle Rhine:

• Winery Bastian
• Weingut Toni Jost - Hahnenhof
• Winery Lanius - Knab
• Weingut Helmut Mades
• Weingut Matthias Müller
• Weingut Ratzenberger

Mosel, formerly Mosel -Saar -Ruwer

• Weingut Clemens Busch
• Weingut Joh. Christoffel Erben
• Weingut Dr. Fischer
• Domaine Le Gallais
• Winery forester Geltz - Zilliken
• Weingut Grans - Fassian
• Weingut Fritz Haag
• Weingut Willi Haag
• Weingut Reinhold Haart
• Winery Herrenberg
• Weingut Heymann- Lowenstein
• Winery of Hövel
• Winery Karthäuserhof
• Winery Count von Kesselstatt
• Weingut Peter Lauer
• Weingut Schloss Lieser
• Weingut Dr. Loosen
• Weingut Egon Müller- Scharzhof
• Winery of Othegraven
• Winery Piedmont
• Weingut Joh. Prüm
• Winery S. A. Prüm
• Weingut Schloss Saarstein
• Weingut Willi Schaefer
• Winery Studert -Prüm
• Weingut Erben Thanisch
• Weingut St. Urbans- Hof
• Winery United Hospitien
• Winery van Volxem
• Weingut Dr. Heinz Wagner
• Wineries Councillor J. Wegeler
• Weingut Dr. F. Weins -Prüm
• Winery spleen Laurentiushof

• Weingut Dr. Crusius
• Winery Schlossgut Diel
• Winery Dönnhoff
• Weingut Emrich - Schoenleber
• Good Hermannsberg
• Weingut Prinz Salm (formerly Prinz zu Salm- Dalberg'sches winery )
• Weingut Joh. shepherd
• Weingut Schäfer -Fröhlich
• Weingut Tesch

Rheingau:

• Weingut Fritz Allendorf
• Wine and Sektgut Barth
• Winery C. Belz
• Weingut Jakob Jung
• Diefenhardt'sches winery
• Hessian State Kloster Eberbach
• Winery Erbsloh
• Weingut August Eser
• Weingut Bernhard Eser
• Weingut Friedrich Fendel
• Winery mill in the street
• Winery Geisenheim Research Center
• Weingut Alexander Freimuth
• Weingut Georg Mueller Stiftung
• Weingut Jakob Hamm
• Weingut Prinz von Hessen
• Winery Hupfeld
• Weinbaudomäne Schloss Johannisberg
• Winery Johannishof
• Weingut Jakob Jung
• Weingut Graf von Kanitz
• Weingut August Kesseler
• Knyphausen Weingut Baron
• Weingut Robert King
• Weingut Peter Jakob Kühn
• Weingut Künstler
• Weingut Lorenz H. Kunz
• Weingut Hans Lang
• Weingut Josef Leitz
• Winery Prince Lowenstein
• G. H. Vineyard Mumm
• Weingut Dr. Heinrich Nägler
• Winery Detlev Knight and Edler von Oetinger
• Weingut Prinz
• Winery Querbach
• Weingut Balthasar Ress
• Weingut Graf von Schönborn
• Winery F.B. Beautifully liver
• Weingut free Herrlich Langwerth of Simmern'sches Rentamt
• Winery Joseph Spreitzer
• Weingut Schloss Vollrads
• Wineries Councillor J. Wegeler
• Weingut Robert Weil
• Domdechant Werner'sches winery

Rheinhessen:

• Weingut St. Antony
• Weingut Battenfeld Spaniard
• Weingut Brüder Dr. Becker
• Weingut K. F. Groebe
• Winery Gunderloch
• Weingut Gutzler
• Winery Cellar
• Winery Kühling Gillot
• Winery J. Neus
• Weingut Rappenhof
• State Weinbaudomäne Rhineland-Palatinate ( Oppenheim )
• Weingut Villa Sachsen
• Weingut Wagner-Stempel
• Schloss Westerhaus
• Winery Winter
• Weingut Wittmann

Palatinate:

• Winery Acham - Magin
• Winery Privy Councillor Dr. von Bassermann- Jordan
• Weingut Friedrich Becker
• Winery Bergdolt
• Winery Bernhart
• Weingut Josef Biffar
• Weingut Dr. Bürklin - Wolf
• Weingut A. Christmann
• Weingut von Winning
• Weingut Fitz -Ritter
• Weingut Georg Mosbacher
• Weingut Henninger IV
• Winery clippers
• Winery wreath
• Weingut Herbert Messmer
• Weingut Theo Minges
• Weingut Müller - Catoir
• Winery Münzberg
• Winery Mugler
• Weingut Pfeffingen
• Weingut Philipp Kuhn
• Weingut Rebholz Ökonomierat
• Weingut Georg Siben heirs
• Siegrist winery
• Wineries Councillor J. Wegeler
• Weingut Dr. Wehrheim

Saale- Unstrut:

• Winery Lützkendorf
• Winery Pawis

Saxony:

• Castle Proschwitz
• Vineyard Room Ling

Württemberg:

• Weingut Gerhard Aldinger
• Count of Bentzel - Sturmfeder Horneck'sches winery
• Weingut Beurer
• Weingut Ernst Dautel
• Winery Drautzmann -Able
• Winery Jürgen Ellwanger
• Weingut Graf Adelmann
• Weingut Karl Haidle
• Weingut Heid
• Winery Schlossgut Hohenbeilstein
• Winery Prince of Hohenlohe - Öhringen
• Winery Kistenmacher - Hengerer
• Winery of Count Neipperg
• Winery Rainer Schnaitmann
• Weingut R. Wachtstetter
• State Winery Vineyard
• Winery Duke of Württemberg
• Winery Wöhrwag

Eagle grape

The grapes eagle is the symbol of the VDP association. It shows an eagle naturalistically depicted with a bunch of grapes in its beak. Since 2003 he is also represented as a seal on the bottle cap. It features wines from Association members and is a terroir dominated, artisanal winemaking indicate that excludes oak chips and limited the use of additives as a seal of approval. Wines from experimental cultivation of the VDP does not receive the seal. The display on the capsule is an icon that shows me the silhouette of an eagle grapes in the chest area.

VDP Trophy " Origin Germany "

The Prädikatsweingüter give the VDP Trophy " Origin Germany " since 2001 annually to outstanding journalists who have made outstanding contributions through their work at the German Wine and helped to make the German wine world is back in style. So far, the prize was awarded to:

• 2001 six journalists from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for her series " Report on the Situation ": Georg Küffner, Oliver Bock, Dr. Daniel Deckers, Dr. Horst Dohm, Alfred Behr, Dr. Roswin Finkenzeller
• In 2002, the magazines, the food and wine gourmet
• 2003 the wine guide Gault Millau Wine Guide Germany and the magazine All about wine with the authors Armin Diel and Joel Payne
• In 2004, the wine magazine Vinum and its former editor Rudolf Knoll
• 2005 British wine critic Stuart Pigott
• 2006 Hamburger wine writer Mario Scheuermann
• 2009 British author Freddy Price

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