The name Witwe Dr. H. Thanisch Erben Müller-Burggraef is inseparably inter-twined with luxurious Riesling wines from Germany‘s most expensive white wine site: “Berncasteler Doctor“ A century-old tale echoes the sublimity of the Doctor wines: Struck with an incurable illness, the Elector Boemund of Trier publicly announced that anybody who delivered a cure to his disease would be rewarded with unimaginable riches. Doctors, pharmacists and healers lined up at the sick bed – to no avail. The Elector’s fate seemed doomed when a nobleman showed up and handed the patient a cup of golden wine. Weary of pointless miracle cures Boemund hesitated. Then he drank the wine and finished it joyfully. A few days later, the fever ceased and Boemund fully recovered. Upon being asked how he wished to be rewarded the nobleman chuckled and said: “All I ask is that you bestow upon my wine, which only grows on the mountains of Bernkastel, a proper doctor’s degree – as it is the true doctor.” Boemund kindly consented and issued an official doctor’s degree to the growing site. Ever since, the vineyard bears the honorable name: “Berncasteler Doctor”