{"title":"Karthauserhof","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s not often we can enjoy wine from a producer with 700 years of winemaking history, but Karthäuserhof offers exactly that kind of extensive history, as well as extraordinary terroir. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 14th century, a well-regarded plot of vines in the Mosel was gifted to the local Carthusian monks by a Luxembourgish prince. Unless you're well-versed in monastic orders, Carthusian might not mean much to you — but some readers will recognize Chartreuse, the herbal liqueur produced by the very same monks in the French Alps. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor hundreds of years, these monks toiled in the vines and the cellar of Karthäuserhofberg, until it was confiscated in the early years of Napoleon’s reign, and secularized. Remarkably, the same family that was given charge of the vines then is still making the wines at Karthäuserhof, and the monopole vineyard of Karthäuserhofberg is considered to be one of the finest sources of dry and sweet Riesling in all of Germany. The majority of the vines are ungrafted, and the estate has long eschewed pesticides in favor of pheromones that naturally keep pests away from the vines. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 19 hectare vineyard of Karthäuserhofberg offers many different expositions, but a singular soil type of iron-rich grey and blue slate, very typical of the Ruwer Valley, one of Germany’s smallest winemaking regions. Over the past few vintages, they've managed to acquire other prestigious sites in the neighboring locales of Mertesdorf and Waldracher-Laurentiusberg, with most of the fruit from these vineyards going into the estate’s entry-level wines.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/sf.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/karthauserhof.oembed","provider":"Flatiron SF","version":"1.0","type":"link"}