Location and classification
Blümchen is a legally registered single-vineyard site in the municipality and cadastral district of Nittel in the growing region Mosel, more precisely in the Obermosel area. The vineyard site is located in the Nittel vineyards above the Mosel, close to the Luxembourg border.
Area and site
In the official vineyard register 2024, Blümchen is listed under number 420108 with 27.1 hectares of planted vineyard area. A Chardonnay plot in Nittel’s Blümchen lies, according to a producer, at just under 280 metres above sea level. Chardonnay from this site is associated with shell-bearing limestone.
Varieties and maturation
Chardonnay and Elbling are documented for Nittel’s Blümchen. One winery describes an old Elbling vine stock there, which was planted by hand in 1962 and today yields reduced crop levels. From this stock, Elbling is offered as a Spätlese.
Elbling Spätlese
The grapes for the documented Elbling Spätlese were picked fully ripe and without botrytis, pressed as whole grapes and spontaneously fermented.
