Wine and champagne Ch.W. Bernhard

Up to the chapel

A striking silhouette and a chapel on top: a Catholic church once stood on the Kirchberg. In memory of this, the people of Hackenheim have erected a chapel there, the Michaelskapelle. Saint Michael is the local church patron saint. Once a year, the local community celebrates its wine festival up there. Yes, people are allowed to dance! A wide variety of vines grow on clay marl. However, the name is apparently not based on the former Catholic church, but on the southern location to the Hackenheim church in the village.

> Discover the single vineyard at the wine festival "Rendezvous am Kapellsche": http://rendezvous-am-kapellsche.de/
> On the photos: a wayside cross from 1975, renewed in 1992. 

Roots deep in the rock

There are only few cultivated plants that grow as well on rock as the vine. Its powerful roots can penetrate metres deep. The single vineyard "Frei-Laubersheimer Fels" takes its name - of course - from the geological conditions. Clay marl and loess meet rhyolite and quartz porphyry rock. The wines, whether white or red, are characterised by the minerality of the rock and have a very good ageing potential. Frei-Laubersheim is known for its half-timbered idyll. The Eichelberg Hiwweltour leads past the village. However, this single vineyard is actually on the other side of the village, towards Hackenheim.

> Discover Frei-Laubersheim via Hiwweltour Eichelberg.
https://www.rheinhessen.de/hiwweltouren/hiwweltour-eichelberg