Tasting Notes

Cool pear and lemonade fragrances are easily picked up in the nose of Dr. Pauly's Noble House Riesling. More peach and nectarine aromas follow (appropriate for this type of white). Minerals and oyster shell softly intrude when tasting the wine, warding off any thoughts of the wine being too sweet. Check this out for a new interpretation of German Riesling.

Wine-Recipe Pairing
The Better Homes and Gardens Wine Club panel paired this wine with the Sesame Chicken-Vegetable Salad. We loved the way the specter of sweetness in the wine bumped up the sweetness in the vegetables. And yet the wine's spry acidity beautifully contrasted the rich, full flavor of the sesame seeds. Tote this combo on a picnic with the wine well chilled for a sublime springtime supper.

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Winery Story

Keep it in the family. Business owners know this axiom-leaving their companies to their children to continue. The same was true when it came to "arranged" marriages. Two families would join their children and their properties together (making their empire stronger). It shouldn't be too surprising to see the same thing take place in the wine business.

Dr. Peter Pauly, born in 1939, has a Ph. D. in agricultural science and is the offspring of the longstanding wine families Bergweiler and Prum, first mentioned in official records in 1156. Dr. Peter Pauly is the grandson of Zacharias Bergweiler, a respected grape grower in the Mosel River Valley for decades. Peter took over his grandfather's estate while he was a student, subsequently completing his doctorate and writing a thesis on the economic opportunities of the wine region.

Enter Helga Berres, daughter of Carl Hubert Berres. She owned the Peter Nicolay estate, inheriting it from her father after much inner-family feuding. This estate had once been a stern competitor of the Bergweiler's (even though the families were friendly). Helga managed the property from an early age-and managed to merge the Nicolay estate with the Bergweiler lands through her marriage to Dr. Pauly in 1971. Now their son Stefan looms as the successor in both grape growing and wine making.

Dr. Pauly-Bergweiler's largest production wine is the Noble House Riesling. Noble House was named in honor of the Prince Elect of Trier, the oldest city in Germany. The prince built the distinguished Noble House in 1743 and pressed his first vintages in the manor's wine cellar. The estate, including the baroque mansion, was purchased by Dr. Pauly-Bergweiler for use as a center for winetasting, banquets, and functions. Even though it is no longer used for production today, it is a stately entrance to the family properties.