Location and municipality
Wincheringen is a wine-growing municipality on the Upper Moselle in the Trier-Saarburg district of Rhineland-Palatinate and belongs to the Moselle. The municipality comprises Wincheringen, Bilzingen and Söst.
Viticulture and geology
The municipality is assigned to the Upper Moselle wine-growing region, whose characteristic geological subsoil around Wincheringen consists of Muschelkalk. The single vineyard Burg Warsberg lies within the Wincheringen cadastral district and, in the Moselle cultivation area, belongs to the Upper Moselle area as well as to the Großlage Gipfel. For the 2024 harvest, a planted area of 106.0 hectares is recorded.
Grape varieties and wine style
Elbling is regarded as a regional speciality of the southern Moselle. There it is produced as a fresh white wine and as lively sparkling wine; in addition, Burgunder wines are documented for Wincheringen. In one estate with a main site Burg Warsberg, Elbling grapes are pressed whole-berried, Burgunder grapes are destemmed and sparkling wines are stored on the lees for at least nine months. Within the site, slope steepness and the duration of sunshine influence suitability for cultivation.
History and townscape
The use of the local Muschelkalk soil is dated to around 2000 BC. Settlements, roads and grave-field sites are documented from the Roman period. Wincheringen first appears in the municipality’s historical report in connection with the Prümer property register of 893. Later, the Warsberg family held the local castle as a fiefdom of the Electorate of Trier. The Warsberghaus, formerly also referred to as the Warsberger Burg, is a central point of orientation in the town; in 1975 the municipality acquired the building complex from private ownership and then had it renovated.
