A Schweigen Pinot Noir specialist at 29.8 ha under Friedrich Wilhelm Becker, VDP member since 2000, with 80 percent Burgunder plantings and Grosse Lage vines literally crossing the French border into Alsace.
Tasting: Vinothek and shop at Hauptstrasse 29 by appointment; Pinot-focused tastings of Sankt Paul, Sonnenberg, Kammerberg and Heydenreich GGs, with vineyard walks that physically cross into French Alsace.
A 20.4 ha Schweigen border estate under Gerd Bernhart, VDP member since 2004; certified organic with the Radling Pinot Noir GG as flagship and roughly two-thirds of the vineyard land lying in France under the Pfalz wine-law exception.
Tasting: Vinothek at Hauptstrasse 8 in Schweigen by appointment; Pinot-focused tastings of the Kostert, Radling, Sonnenberg and Guldenwingert GGs.
A 31.8 ha Schweigen-Rechtenbach estate under Werner and Johannes Julg, VDP member since 2021; certified organic, with Sonnenberg, Kammerberg and Guldenwingert Grosse Lage Pinot and Riesling on Muschelkalk limestone at the French border.
Tasting: Vinothek at Hauptstrasse 1 by appointment; Pinot-focused tastings of Sonnenberg, Kammerberg and Guldenwingert GGs and the estate-bottled Sekt program.
A 16 ha Klingenmuenster family estate at the southern Pfalz edge, working warm calcareous soils for dry Riesling, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir.
Tasting: Vinothek at Weinstrasse 17 in Klingenmuenster by appointment; tastings of Sudliche Weinstrasse Riesling, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Noir.
Friedrich Becker's estate vinothek in Schweigen-Rechtenbach, pouring the dry Spaetburgunder, Riesling and Weissburgunder range from the cross-border Sonnenberg parcels in French Alsace.
The list: Friedrich Becker's estate vinothek in Schweigen-Rechtenbach, pouring the dry Spaetburgunder, Riesling and Weissburgunder programmes from the cross-border Sonnenberg parcels in French Alsace
Tip: Ask the team to set the Sonnenberg Spaetburgunder beside the Heydenreich and Kammerberg parcels; the cross-border story reads clearest in the Pinot trio.