Family winery Finkenauer

Carbonate, Rich, Gold: Riesling from Hundertgulden 

It is Germany's most carbonate-rich vineyard. The lime- and salt-rich soil "Terra Fusca" was formed over 50 million years ago and was once a coral reef in the primordial sea. Today, it is mainly Rieslings that grow there, producing elegant wines with fine fruit aromas. Easily digestible top wines with a unique minerality. Carbones are salts. The current site name "Hundertgulden" probably dates back to the 14th century: At that time, the vineyard by the Westerberg changed hands several times. The new owners paid large sums in gold florins from the river Rhein. This vineyard is a real gold treasure!

• To the further single vineyard site of Appenheim: Eselspfad 
• Discover the single vineyard site via Hiwweltour Bismarckturm 
• To the other single vineyard sites at Westerberg: Ingelheimer Schloss Westerhaus

The location was mentioned in 1403 with the name "an der kalenberge". The name is based on the dialect word "Kalle", which has its origin in the Latin "canalis" and means gutter.

No sweet honey, but genetically valuable mother vines.
Of course there are bees in the Bubenheim honey mountain. It would be bad if not! But that once particularly many bee colonies were settled there or beekeepers were active, is unlikely. Much more likely the word "honey" could have been derived from "hunnish". "Hunnish" or also "Heunisch" refers to an old wine variety or family of varieties. In the High and Late Middle Ages, a distinction was made between "Hunnish" and Frankish vines. Yes, the Huns (meaning the Hungarians) and the Franks. Hildegard von Bingen also wrote about this. It is clear that the Heunisch has contributed decisively to the gene pool of today's vines, quasi an old mother grape variety. But whether the Bubenheimer Honigberg was once called "Heinischberg", nobody knows anymore. Varieties of grape thrive on loess and limestone. A wave-shaped bench for two offers a beautiful view of the Selz valley at Thalberg. The little Selz river flanks the village to the east.

• Discover the single vineyard via "Hiwweltour Westerberg" (access path at the level of the Walter-Zoth-Hütte). At the Weedmännchen fountain in the village center, the two single vineyard sites, Honigberg and Kallenberg, are immortalized. https://blog.rheinhessen.de/weinorte-hiwweltour-westerberg/