Location and landscape
The Geisberg is the officially associated vineyard site with Ockfen. It lies above the village on a steep slope facing south, in a side valley of the Saar. The site is assigned to the cadastral district of Schoden and to the growing region Mosel.
Soil and cultivation
The Geisberg is on Devonian slate. The previously overgrown and abandoned vineyard site has been cultivated again; today, on the steep southern slope above Ockfen, vines have been planted once more.
Classification and grape variety
The VDP classifies the Geisberg as VDP.GROSSE LAGE® in the growing region Mosel-Saar-Ruwer. The classified area comprises 16.00 hectares. The classified grape variety is Riesling. In the official wine-growing sites directory of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Geisberg is listed under number 460239 with 13.4 hectares of planted vineyard area.
Historical significance and wine styles
According to information from Van Volxem, the Geisberg was laid out by Benedictine monks, was secularised under Napoleon, and was later auctioned in Paris. Historical documents from around 1900 list it as one of the formerly most valuable vineyard sites on the Mosel; due to high cultivation costs during the Mosel wine crisis, the area lay completely fallow from the end of the 1970s. Dry Rieslings are documented as VDP.GROSSES GEWÄCHS, as well as fruity-sweet Rieslings of the Kabinett predicate level.
