single vineyard in the municipality of Iphofen (Steigerwald area) in the German wine-growing region of Franconia. It is named after the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn (1545-1617). He not only founded the University of Würzburg, but also the Juliusspital Foundation. At the beginning of the 19th century, the three individual vineyards Berg, Rechenberg and Johannisberg were combined under this new vineyard designation; during the land consolidation in 1971, the vineyard area was almost doubled by incorporating neighbouring areas. The Julius-Echter-Berg became famous worldwide through a 1950 Riesling Auslese, which was delivered to the British royal family in London on the occasion of the coronation celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) in 1953.
The vineyards, which face south-east, south and south-south-west in a cauldron shape, at an altitude of 270 to 370 metres above sea level with slopes of 40 to 65%, cover 47 hectares of vines. The soils consist of grey-brown Keuper with fossil enrichments and green reed sandstone with a very high skeletal content in the upper area. A forest belt above the vineyard provides good wind protection. The white wine varieties Silvaner, Riesling, Rieslaner, Traminer, Scheurebe, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris are mainly cultivated here. The Julius-Echter-Berg is counted among the best German Silvaner sites. The wineries Emmerich Werner, Ilmbacher Hof, Juliusspital, Ruck Johann, Staatlicher Hofkeller Würzburg, Weigand, Weltner Paul, Wirsching Hans and Zehntkeller Iphofen, for example, have shares in the site.
