The M\u00fclheimer Sonnenlay is the largest single Richter vineyard and the source of the world-renowned \u201cZeppelin\u201d Riesling. The vineyard sits on the west-southwestern side of a slate stone hill south of M\u00fclheim, a dry riverbed formed during the last ice age 250,000 years ago. The name of the vineyard\u2013 Sonne (sunshine) and lay (slate stone) \u2013perfectly describes the characteristics of the site. This often extremely steep vineyard has a loose slate stone soil structure that is enriched by pebbles, loam and sand deposited by the ancient river. This kind of soil creates wines that combine typical slate stone mineral character with animated and elegant fruitiness. Grapes from the hillside are also used to produce Richter\u2019s single vineyard, singlevintage sparkling brut wine.
\nWines from the M\u00fclheimer Sonnenlay were served on the luxurious Zeppelin airships -including the Hindenburg – in the 1920s and 30s. Local growers, proud of this distinction, commissioned Bauhaus artist Hans Schl\u00f6sser to design a label for the wine incorporating the iconic Zeppelin airship. The label is still featured today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The M\u00fclheimer Sonnenlay is the largest single Richter vineyard and the source of the world-renowned \u201cZeppelin\u201d Riesling. The vineyard sits on the west-southwestern side of a slate stone hill south of M\u00fclheim, a dry riverbed formed during the last ice age 250,000 years ago. The name of the vineyard\u2013 Sonne (sunshine) and lay (slate stone) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muelheimer-sonnenuhr_en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxferdrichter.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxferdrichter.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxferdrichter.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxferdrichter.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxferdrichter.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxferdrichter.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxferdrichter.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxferdrichter.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxferdrichter.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxferdrichter.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}