Dr. H. Thanisch Muller-Burggraef Bernkasteler Lay Riesling Auslese 2016
(Mosel, Germany) - [WS 94] [WE 93] [WA 92]

The name Witwe Dr. H. Thanisch Erben Müller-Burggraef is inseparably inter-twined with luxurious Riesling wines from Germany‘s most expensive white wine site: “Berncasteler Doctor“

A century-old tale echoes the sublimity of the Doctor wines: Struck with an incurable illness, the Elector Boemund of Trier publicly announced that anybody who delivered a cure to his disease would be rewarded with unimaginable riches. Doctors, pharmacists and healers lined up at the sick bed – to no avail.

The Elector’s fate seemed doomed when a nobleman showed up and handed the patient a cup of golden wine.

Weary of pointless miracle cures Boemund hesitated. Then he drank the wine and finished it joyfully.  A few days later, the fever ceased and Boemund fully recovered.

Upon being asked how he wished to be rewarded the nobleman chuckled and said: “All I ask is that you bestow upon my wine, which only grows on the mountains of Bernkastel, a proper doctor’s degree – as it is the true doctor.” Boemund kindly consented and issued an official doctor’s degree to the growing site.

Ever since, the vineyard bears the honorable name:
“Berncasteler Doctor”

About the Wine:

On the riverbanks of the Mosel, right at the edge of the town Bernkastel the top site of Bernkasteler Lay is situated. The vineyard is West-Southwest oriented, which guarantees as maximum of sunlight during the day. The slate is decomposed and fine, regularly producing superb quality.