Dr. Heidemanns-Bergweiler

Dr. Heidemanns-Bergweiler is one of the labels of the Pauly family's estate at Gestade 15 in Bernkastel-Kues on the Middle Mosel; its website carries the same text, address and vineyard list as Dr. Pauly-Bergweiler, and its tech sheets are issued from the same house. The wein.plus lexicon records that the Bergweiler family was first mentioned in the fifteenth century, that a 1911 division of Mathias Prüm's holdings brought Maria Katharina Prüm into the family through her marriage to Zacharias Bergweiler, that Dr. Peter Pauly inherited the estate in 1959 and incorporated the Peter Nicolay estate in Ürzig through his marriage to Helga Berres, and that his son Stefan Pauly has run the business since 2006.

The estate describes fifteen vineyard sites over about twenty kilometres of river between Brauneberg and Erden, on weathered Devonian slate: Bernkasteler Badstube and Schlossberg, Alte Badstube am Doctorberg (1.8 ha, wholly family-owned, vines in part over seventy years old), Graacher Himmelreich, Wehlener Sonnenuhr and Klosterberg, Ürziger Würzgarten and Goldwingert, Erdener Prälat and Treppchen, and Brauneberger Juffer. Riesling is planted everywhere except Graacher Domprobst, where Pinot Noir went in after the 1986 land consolidation. Grapes are processed at a facility just outside Bernkastel and each site is fermented separately in small stainless steel tanks, slowly and at low temperature. The range runs from dry and off-dry estate Rieslings through the Prädikat ladder to Eiswein, plus a traditional-method Riesling Sekt, a Dornfelder and a Pinot Noir.