How many wineries made use of the new label was also not recorded by anyone. Was it more than a handful, perhaps more than a few dozen? The members of the VDNV pulled together rather rarely at that…
It is impossible to reconstruct how many winery owners responded to the request to print the association mark on letter paper, corks or labels to certify that they belonged to the circle of natural…
How wine got to the eagle
A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE VDP.ADLER
The Brandenburg eagle appeared in blood red, the Prussian one in black, the Habsburg heraldic animal was even a double eagle. The…
Today the originals of the famous Tranchot-Müffling cards are kept in the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden in Berlin (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz). Via the VDP you have the unique…
Vineyard card Rhine 1904
The completion of the vineyard map project for the Prussian Rhine Province is the "Rhein-Weinbau-Karte" (Rhine-vineyard map), published in 1904, for the Koblenz-Bonn…
Vineyard card Rhine 1902
The fact that two vineyard maps had been drawn up for the Moselle region, but that there was nothing of the kind for the Middle Rhine Valley, which also belonged to the…
Vineyard card Nahe 1900
In the year 1900 it was also so far in the southernmost wine-growing area of Rheinpreußens: According to the two Mosel vineyard maps the "Nahe-Weinbau map for the…
Vineyard card Mosel (Koblenz) 1898
While the initiative for the production of the Saar-Mosel vineyard map had been taken by the Prussian district government, in the case of a vineyard map for the…
Vineyard card Saar-Mosel (Trier) 1868
The man to whom German viticulture owes the "Saar-Mosel vineyard map for the Trier administrative district" was by no means a Moselle, not even a…
Vineyard card Rheingau 1885
Almost twenty years after the "Weinbaukarte für den Nassauischen Rheingau" a second map for the wine-growing area between Hochheim and Rüdesheim was published. Even…
