We are welcomed by Tom Benn. Enthusiastically he shows us the entire selection of Riesling, the specialty of the house. We get to taste the whole range. A few years ago, Bettina von Bürklin-Guradze, the current owner, has decided to reduce the many wines the Weingut made, to a manageable number of nine. The aim was to get more focus, and not doing a bit of everything. Germany is known for its Riesling and Riesling is what Bürklin Wolf stands for. Tasting the nine wines took us nevertheless two hours, because Tom is such an enthusiastic storyteller, he cannot stop talking about the wines and everything which has got to do with the wines. With the characteristic English humor (Tom is British, although he alsmost has a German accent) he tells us his stories about manure, old wines, the magnificent forests of the Palatinate, where the running is great, but also about the  upcoming move over.

Working in the vineyard
We can stay here all day, but Tom takes us from the nice tasting room (former cow shed) to the cellars and to the treasury chamber with wines till one hundred years old. There are the stories again, like how he ended up here. Twelve years ago he was sent to his aunt in the Pfalz to work in the vineyard. School was not for him and maybe he could mkae up here waht to do with his life. When the harvest was finished they asked him if he would not want to return after Christmas. Back in England he started to miss something. Eventually he knew what is was: Riesling! He came back and worked his way up till his current job. His Polish wife controls the land workers from Poland during harvest.

Less is more
We go for the vineyard in order to find out what really matters, land. Because of its focus on quality a lot of land is sold at the moment. "On the riverside, they should put more potatoes in the ground, but the slopes are best for wine. Less is more! " concerning to Tom.