故事
Gräfenberg, the depots of Mediaș and the town itself: places that appear in documents and exist on the map. We do not publish a visiting timetable we cannot keep; we publish how…
Gräfenberg, the depots of Mediaș and the town itself: places that appear in documents and exist on the map. We do not publish a visiting timetable we cannot keep; we publish how to reach them and what can be seen.
Gräfenberg is the hill above Mediaș, with the vineyard that gave the estate its name. Here Michael Ambrosi sen. planted 20 ha with vines and American hybrid rootstocks; here his son made, after 1919, the clone selections that led to Fetească Regală. The name appears in the documents beside plantings, harvests and selections, not beside a manor.
The landscape is a working one: rows of vines, farm tracks, a view over the town. It is not a park and not a museum site. The photographs in the archive — the plantings on Gräfenberg, the harvest — show what to look for on the ground: the structure of the rows, the old plants, the traces of irrigation.
Access is with the owner's agreement and is arranged through contact. We do not promise tastings and we do not promise entry to the cellars: we promise a reading of the place, if it is a suitable day. Visits are by arrangement.
The depots are the most important and least visible part of the story. Ambrosi held Transylvania's wine logistics depots at Mediaș, sited beside the railway, because the train was the principal means of transport of the age. Here the wine that went to the kingdom and the monarchy was gathered, held and prepared for dispatch.
The buildings now have other uses, and the cellar does not operate as a museum. What remains is the paperwork: the envelope «Viile și Pivnițele Ambrosi, Mediaș», the Ambrosi Imperial and Ambrosi Privat labels, the expert report and the house catalogue. They show a business that thought in seasons, in wagons and in stocks.
Visiting the depots belongs to the future of the project, not its present. Access is arranged through contact, depending on the state of the works and the owners' agreement.
Mediaș is the starting point. The town stands in the Târnava valley, in the middle of the former Weinland, and the traces of the wine metropolis are still legible: the cellars beneath the houses, the depots near the station, the merchants' streets. The address of the Ambrosi house is Str. Johannes Honterus nr. 6.
For a visitor, the town reads in four superimposed layers: the vine, the rocket, the gas, the castle. Hermann Oberth, one of the fathers of modern astronautics, was born in Mediaș; the methane gas industry put the town on the country's economic map; the castle marked the medieval destiny of the settlement. The history of wine is the oldest and least visible layer — which is why it needs a route of its own, with documents, houses and cellars. A tour of Mediaș that does not pass through Honterus Street misses the town that was a wine metropolis.
Visits are by arrangement through contact. We have no published opening hours, because there is no permanent museum space; there is an address, an archive and people who answer. Write to us a few days in advance and say what interests you.
Mediaș already has a calendar that carries the wine story forward: Weinfest Mediaș, Weinfest Christmas Edition and Oktoberfest Boutique, organised within the Core of Transylvania platform. To these is added the International Day of Fetească Regală, whose proclamation in Mediaș was launched in 2021 and which is celebrated every year on 3 June.
The programme and exact dates are announced year by year by the organisers; for current editions, the surest thing is to ask directly. The site does not publish a permanent calendar and does not put up dates it cannot keep.
The Ambrosi project's presence at these events is natural: a town that celebrates its wine needs the documentary side too, not only the festive one. That is where the archive, the house and the future cellar come in.
人物
葡萄委员会主席，苗圃经营者，嫁接小册子的作者
老迈克尔·安布罗西（1862—1933）出身特尔纳瓦地区一个古老的种植者家庭。1875 年父亲去世，他十三岁辍学，接手家族的葡萄园、耕地与牧场；从那时起，他在葡萄园里学这门手艺。1889 年根瘤蚜抵达这一带时，他向萨克森农业协会理事会提交报告，要求设立一个葡萄委员会；委员会成立，他被任命为主席。自 1892 年起，他与弗里德里希·卡斯帕里共事十年，举办课程与实操，1901 年起在协会理事会中代表萨克森种植者。他在梅迪亚什有 20 公顷，种葡萄藤与美洲杂交藤苗；在克勒丘内尔有 70 公顷，那片土地在国有化之后成为布拉日研究站的基础。他写过关于嫁接的小册子，其中有《一种新的嫁接法》（1910 年，1928 年修订）。
Portrait苗圃经营者，阿尤德与布夫泰亚的经理，《Der praktische Weinbauer》的作者，梅迪亚什市长
小迈克尔·安布罗西（1880—1940）先后就读梅迪亚什农业学校（1894—1897）、沙尔瓦尔乳品学校（1897—1898），1903 年毕业于布达福克葡萄栽培学院。1902 年，他主导了买下阿尤德产业之事，该产业 1905 年得名「Ambrosi, Fischer & Co.」，他从 1912 年起执掌；1906 年出版《Der praktische Weinbauer》，共三版，1913 年在克拉约瓦出了罗马尼亚文版。自 1907 年起，他任布夫泰亚 Știrbey 亲王苗圃的合伙人兼经理，那里有 40 公顷插条、12 公顷嫁接藤苗学校，每年 800—1000 万株藤苗。1919 年他接手格雷芬贝格葡萄园，1924 年迁居梅迪亚什，1920 年代完成了那些无性系选育——皇家费特亚斯卡之名很可能即由此而来。1933 年起任梅迪亚什市长。
Portrait律师，葡萄种植者，梅迪亚什福音教会堂务委员
阿尔弗雷德·安布罗西博士（1895—1974）毕业于斯特凡·路德维希·罗特中学，随后在第一次世界大战中作为炮兵上了前线。负伤并中毒气之后，他在克卢日—纳波卡攻读法律，1921 年取得博士学位；此后又在柏林农业大学与商学院深造葡萄栽培知识。他为汉堡的胡戈·施廷内斯工作过几年，之后又为同一位雇主在国内效力。1927 年他接手克勒丘内尔的产业，在那里以最现代的方法栽培葡萄，并因葡萄酒品类与酒窖经营而知名。藤苗出口为他赢得国际声誉，尤其是「Ambrosi-special」选系，以及在葡萄栽培大会上的展示。1942 年他成为梅迪亚什福音教会的堂务委员，直至移居德国。1974 年卒于慕尼黑；他为特兰西瓦尼亚葡萄酒做的广告出现在 1967、1971 和 1972 年的德国报刊上。
Portrait黑森州立葡萄园总监——埃伯巴赫修道院；葡萄酒作家
汉斯·安布罗西（1925—2012）1942 年在锡比乌布鲁肯塔尔中学通过毕业考试，随即被征入伍，派往俄军前线。战后他于 1947 年永久迁往德国，1948 至 1951 年在斯图加特—霍恩海姆攻读农学，两年后取得博士学位。他先后在盖森海姆的嫁接葡萄藤研究所工作，随后任斯图加特—霍恩海姆果树学研究所助理。1954 年他前往南非，主持斯泰伦博斯大学葡萄栽培系，并创建了 Nietvoorbij 研究所。1966 年起，他任黑森州立葡萄园总监，驻埃伯巴赫修道院，修复了修道院，并创办了莱茵高音乐节。1990 年退休，出版六十多本书；2001 年获特兰西瓦尼亚萨克森人文化奖。
Portrait重植欧洲的先驱，安布罗西家族的合作伙伴，防治根瘤蚜的国家专员
弗里德里希·卡斯帕里（1858—1935）是与老迈克尔·安布罗西并列的另一位重植欧洲的先驱。他在维也纳近郊的克洛斯特新堡葡萄栽培学校受训，1892 年回到特兰西瓦尼亚，被任命为防治根瘤蚜的国家专员。同年，他开始与老迈克尔·安布罗西合作，十年间共同举办众多课程与实操。家族纪念册描述了势力范围的分野：卡斯帕里主要向西工作——特兰西瓦尼亚、匈牙利、奥地利、德国、列支敦士登、俄国——并在瓦拉希亚做过一些事，任德勒格沙尼 Știrbey 亲王苗圃的经理，在布加勒斯特近郊的若伊察有一座苗圃。安布罗西则向东与向南，后来还越过大洋。此处所用的生卒年并不见于家族纪念册。
Portrait亲王，德勒格沙尼与布夫泰亚苗圃的主人
在安布罗西家族的资料里，巴尔布·Știrbey 以亲王以及德勒格沙尼和布夫泰亚苗圃主人的身份出现。小迈克尔·安布罗西 1904 年在布夫泰亚为他种下一片十公顷的果园，1909 年扩至 50 公顷，并照管 30 公顷杏与李；自 1907 年起，他任亲王苗圃的合伙人兼经理。同样在布夫泰亚，还有 40 公顷插条葡萄园和 12 公顷嫁接藤苗学校，配一套每天约三百万升的灌溉系统，雇工则在阿尤德受过专门训练。
Portrait阿尤德「Ambrosi, Fischer & Co.」公司的合伙人
关于约瑟夫·菲舍尔，本卷宗的资料几乎没有留下什么：没有日期，没有肖像，没有信件。他的名字活了下来，留在阿尔巴县阿尤德的「Ambrosi, Fischer & Co.」公司里；这家公司 1936 年秋季的目录（九月于阿尤德印行）只在信头上提到他，旁边是电报地址「Ambrosi-Fischer Aiud」、电话 22 和邮政储蓄账户 43.026。公司自称是罗马尼亚苗圃经营者总会的成员，并注明已存在「三十五年有余」，这意味着其开端在 1901 年之前。1936—1937 年的目录列出结果果树、玫瑰、美洲砧木与嫁接葡萄藤，其中有皇家费特亚斯卡。就这些：一个公司名、一座苗圃、一份目录。
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