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Alexander Loersch - the winemaker He has been responsible for the expansion of the winery since 2002 and, together with his father Ernst-Albrecht, runs the Family Winery Loersch-Eifel, which dates back 400 years of family tradition. Currently, 8.0 hectares of vineyards are mainly cultivated on steep slopes in good locations. A vineyard with a slope of 30% or more is called a steep slope. Alexander Loersch can only smile slightly - his best locations such as the "Trittenheimer Alt-rchen - Valkenberg" or the "Trittenheime Apotheke - Felsterrassen" reach up to 80%. Purely manual work is required - there is not much to do with machines. Pictured left, Alexander Loersch is seen in the "Trittenheimer Apotheke" in a cross-cutting system, where he cut the leaves so that the grapes could soak up the sun all day until the evening. The reason he grows vines in such extreme places is the unique bluish primary rock slate. On such soils, the vines develop a particularly fine root system, which gives the Riesling, which grows here its very distinctive minerality. For Alexander Loersch, however, an excellent grape material is the basis and prerequisite for a good wine. It is one of the few winemakers to rely mainly on controlled and controlled fermentation. Sometimes a wine sits slowly for two to three months until it is "finished". With your wines, you have to adapt to a different rhythm. Sometimes a 2010 vintage doesn't go into a bottle until September 2011 - simply because it's only "really ready." The result can be tasted! Try. Alexander Loersch presented 11 wines from the 2010 vintage for the state prize. 9 (!) Of them were awarded a gold medal. What a quota! He could not submit certain wines at all because they were "not ready" by the deadline or he could not fill 1,000 bottles of wine - one of the prerequisites for being able to submit the wine at all. This will probably earn him another state honor award for the entire collection, as in 2008. But when you walk in the vineyard with Alexander Loersch, you get the impression that it is not so important to him ... Source: Laume Wein and more