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Since Monday, 22 January 2018, internet users have been able to use the VDP's "Weinberg.Online" website to scroll through the wine-growing areas between Lake Constance, Bonn and the Elbe cultivated by VDP wineries from their PCs and get a detailed picture of the vineyards. This was announced by the VDP. The interactive map shows all the Great and First Vineyards. They provide photos as well as facts about the steepness, altitude, orientation, soil or climate. A descriptive text informs about grape varieties, climate, characteristics and special features as well as the history of the vineyard. The user can then click through to the VDP winery producing there. In the first step, the VDP publishes information on the vineyards of the regions Ahr, Franconia, Moselle, Middle Rhine, Nahe, Palatinate, Rheingau and Rheinhessen.
"VDP.Weinberg.Online" is our first step towards VDP 4.0. The world is becoming increasingly digital - this development does not stop at the wine industry. That is why we have decided to show the current status of our classification of best vineyard sites, which was decided in 2012, on the internet and to present the special and extraordinary features of the delimited parcels with comprehensive information for the visitors", says Steffen Christmann, president of the VDP and added: "On the way of classification, we are also not afraid to present an intermediate status in the maps in a comprehensible way, knowing that the classification process is still in motion."
The interactive map is the result of a process that took almost four years. The delineation of the regions and the drawing of the vineyard boundaries were particularly time-consuming, explained VDP managing director Hilke Nagel. A special thanks goes to the German Wine Institute (DWI), with whom the VDP was able to go some steps together through their own digitalisation project.
In the course of the project, a total of 771 vineyard sites will be delineated and digitised, 428 of them Große Lagen and 324 Erste Lagen. For this purpose, around 4,600 data were requested from 195 VDP winegrowers. When all the vineyards are online, around 2,800 photos will be available. Ten people have been working on the project since 2014. Texts have been written or are being written - for Baden, Württemberg, Saxony and Saale-Unstrut - for all the Great Vineyards. All material is being translated into English.
The digital vineyard map of "VDP.Weinberg.Online" can be accessed via www.weinberg-online.info.
(uka)