Oeko-Weingut Zang, Franconia, organic wine

The Oeko-Weingut Zang in Nordheim on the Mainschleife.

Coming from Schweinfurt, the Main meanders downstream, first bends to the west after Wipfeld, immediately afterwards it changes direction to the east and forms a bottom at Volkach to Nordheim in a westerly direction. This created the so-called Main loop with a microclimate that is particularly suitable for viticulture.

Würzburg, downstream, is only about 20 kilometers by road from Nordheim. This small town with around 1,000 inhabitants lives with and from viticulture, as does the Zang organic winery, whose history goes back to 1640. It has 10 hectares of vineyards, which the Zang family has been cultivating organically in a controlled manner since 1990 out of deep conviction. That was relatively early compared to other wineries. Around 20% of the entire wine-growing area in Franconia has now been converted to organic viticulture. The Zang family is aware that healthy, living soil is the real capital on which they not only spend 70% of their working time, but also think about how they can improve their work every day. After all, it is the basis for your economic existence. Only by optimally adapting their farming methods can they support and maintain the natural fertility of the soil. They achieve this with green seeds and a diverse growth between and under the vines throughout the year. In this way, they sustainably improve the humus supply and the soil structure and at the same time promote the ecological balance and biodiversity in their vineyards. The year in the vineyards begins with pruning the vines in the late winter months and bending the vines in the spring. After budding, various foliage work continues, such as stapling and moderate defoliation in the summer months until the ripening phase. This regulates the harvest quantity, the health of the grapes and also the possible quality of the resulting organic wine. The harvest of perfectly ripe grapes is the most beautiful, but also the busiest time of the winemaking year. Once the grapes are in the cellar, the nervous tension falls away. In order to produce a good, very good wine, the cellar master's empathy and intuition are ultimately required as to which grapes he wants to or can use to produce which wine. This also requires experience and skills.

THE OEKO-WEINGUT ZANG

Anything but mainstream!
Located on the Volkacher Mainschleife - more precisely in the tranquil wine-growing village of Nordheim am Main - the Zang organic winery has been practicing certified organic viticulture for 30 years.

Christa and Rainer Zang produce very individual wine characters with their own signature, which are unique in their own way throughout Franconia. With son Maximilian, the next generation is now taking off and writing a new chapter in the family's almost 400-year winemaking tradition.
The aim is to let the naturalness of the living soils speak in the wines and thus make the long-standing organic cultivation in the wine tangible and tangible.

The Zang family's various plots are spread across the “Main Island” in the Nordheim locations Kreuzberg and Vogelein as well as the Sommerach locations Rosenberg and Katzenkopf.
In addition to the typical Franconian grape varieties Silvaner and Müller-Thurgau, the focus is particularly on the Burgundy varieties: Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. In addition, Riesling, Traminer, Scheurebe and fungus-resistant new varieties expand the range of varieties.

Oeko-Weingut Zang. greening in the vigneyard

The cave uses the language of M. Ohm on the etiquettes of two plus years old. The cuvées de vins du domaine initialement constitutes portent les noms illustres d'ancrage, de tension et de résistance. Dans la gamme de vins countercurrent, les raisins entiers sont fermentés en fût et confèrent aux vins un arôme très distinctif, bien éloigné des clichés courants. In the summer of the collection you find the wines of the Avantgarde line: the wines of wine are unique and striking, are selected parcels, destined for thunder and a new inspiration in the French tradition of vitivinicole and there are certain things that are not sold 'après quelques années. de maturité in bottle.

The dedication and effort put into the vineyard every year is evident in every single bottle! Because there is no control intervention or correction in the basement. Quality is created in the vineyard and it is up to the winemaker to preserve it and carefully accompany it to the bottle. At the Zang organic winery, all wines are spontaneously fermented in wooden barrels and then stored on full yeast without sulfur until the summer. The result is calm, quiet and calm wines with their own bold charisma. Rustic Franconian originals that don't jump out loud from the glass, but invite you to dialogue and be discovered with pleasure!
 

 Zang-greening in the vigneyard
 

Oekoweingut Zang at a glance

Owner: Rainer Zang is a master winemaker and runs the winery together with his wife Christa.

Maximilian Zang: the eldest son successfully completed the dual study program at the wine campus in Neustadt an der Weinstraße and works at the winery.

Benedikt Zang: the second son, is an agricultural machinery technician.

Christoph Zang: the youngest son is a carpenter by profession.

Everyone: can lend a hand in the winery if necessary.

As in Burgundy and Champagne, the soils in the vineyards on the Mainschleife near Nordheim and Volkach consist of limestone and are ideal for viticulture.

Grape varieties in the vineyards

• Bronner (fungus-resistant variety)
• Chardonnay
• Johanniter (fungus-resistant variety)
• Müller-Thurgau
• Regent
• Riesling
• Scheurebe
• Silvaner
• Pinot Blanc
• Pinot Noir
• Traminer

The Zang organic winery produces organic wines from these grape varieties in the following product lines:

Guts-Weine -  Winery-wines

Down to earth and grounded!

The estate wines are not only “good wines”, but also classic representatives of the Zang family, their liquid business cards, so to speak. There are different estate cuvées with different characteristics.
Be it the fruity-mineral EARTH, the fresh-spicy TENSION, the creamy-burgundy RESISTANCE made from fungus-resistant grape varieties or the semi-sparkling KURZSCHLUSS Secco. All expressive organic wines.

Local wines

Puristic, authentic, unique - the ambassadors of the Mainschleife.

Clear and transparent grape variety representatives without interpreting a lot of chichi, with a focus on the mineral origin of our vineyards around the wine-growing towns of Sommerach and Nordheim. And it is precisely this shell limestone of the Main loop that runs through the wines like a cool stream bed: They are all consistent representatives of biological philosophy and style: close to nature, unvarnished, honest and dry.

Single vineyard wines

Avant-garde - the spearhead of every vintage!

Our single-vineyard wines bear the old traditional names of the vineyard plots on which the grapes grew. Every year the goal is to capture the image of the vintage in all its facets and to make it tangible in the wine. The vineyard itself should be allowed to tell its own individual story: a story about the very own character of the vineyard, about healthy soil, about varied weather, the microclimate of the location and especially about the years of experience of the vines on their location.

They are organic wines with spice and texture on the palate, quiet and slow wines that have been given the necessary time in the cellar and that also need time to blossom in the bottle and in the glass.

Countercurrent

"Only dead fish swim with the flow!"

The countercurrent line is the winemaker's personal playground, experimental, quite strange and that's exactly why it's so refreshingly different! These wines see themselves as bridge builders to mash-fermented orange and natural wines:

During fermentation in wooden barrels and in the following months during storage on the lees, around 10% of whole berries are contained in the wine. The wine remains on the lees without sulfur until July. During this time, the alcohol leaches out a variety of flavors, extracts and tannins from the berry peels and seeds.

The wines usually don't turn out to be typical representatives of their grape variety and manage to skillfully hold up a mirror to entrenched prejudices and dusty varietal clichés. They are organic wines of an invigoratingly different style, a new dimension of wine enjoyment and his personal contribution to the natural wine movement.

These single-vineyard wines do not act loudly from the glass, but encourage you to listen and can therefore enter into an exciting dialogue throughout the evening.
Wines with tradition for a sustainable future!

Please order in total at least 6 individual bottles or 6 bottles of one variety at Oekoweingut Zang, or multiples thereof, i.e. 12, 18,  etc.. Shipping costs are € 14.60 to € 18.70 per order and address depending on the destination.
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