Like hundreds of other wine bloggers, we’re going to start, with some semi-regular consistency, a series of posts about what we’re drinking and liking, often from our portfolio. The difference is that this new segment has a German title—Der Wein der Woche just means “Wine of the Week”—and we’re knowingly deluding ourselves into thinking that this title alone separates us from the pack. So, here’s the first act:

The steep, south-facing 5-hectare (12.4-acre) Piesporter Domherr lies at the foot of the slope, near the old part of Piesport (on the map, to the left of “360″ and the bridge) upstream towards the village of Ferres.  A Roman press house is located here. Domherr is enclosed on all but one side by the famous Goldtröpfchen vineyard and is one of the core sites of the amphitheater-shaped Piesporter hillside that curves several kilometers and rises some 500 meters above the Mosel.

In the past, Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt, with the largest holding in Domherr, wanted to buy up the remaining parcels from the smaller winegrowers in order to have a an individual single vineyard à la Vereinigte Hospitien with its steep-terraced Piesporter Schubertslay, which borders Domherr on the one side. But the winegrowers refused von Kesselstatt’s offer, knowing full well the potential of this site.