Milk of Our Lady

The famous wine "Lieben Frauen Milch zu Worms" was first mentioned in 1744. At the time, the rule was that the name could only be used if the grapes grew in the area "as far as the tower of the Church of Our Lady casts its shadow". These were the vineyards of the Capuchin monastery "Stiftskirche Liebfrauenkirche" in Worms in Rheinhessen. Later, this geographically limited term was extended to all Rhine wines, thus diluting the origin. In the course of Napoleonic secularisation, the remaining part of the monastery and most of the original vineyards were acquired by the mayor Peter Joseph Valckenberg (1764-1837) in 1808. By decision of the Worms wine merchants, the name was changed to "Liebfrauenstift" in 1908 and later supplemented by "Kirchenstück". Since then, the historic single vineyard has been called "Wormser Liebfrauenstift-Kirchenstück".

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