Our roots go deep with the earliest family records dating back to the year 1727. These origins lie in Bermersheim vor der Höhe, a small wine village in Rhinehessen and birthplace of St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098 – 1179). This is where our family belongs and where the family tradition of winemaking begun.
PhD in family businesses. And despite that education she herself has joined the family business! She has also received a certificate in viticulture and oenology from Neustadt/Weinstraße and Bad Kreuznach. Jana is a passionate successor who loves combining her curiosity for knowledge with her wanderlust. Along the way she has collected practical experience in wineries in Germany and New Zealand.
Jana‘s recommendation:
Auxerrois (white wine — dry)
Enologist. Enthusiastic winemaker and entrepreneur. Often thoughtful, always determined! With decades of experience and his infallible sense for good wine, Heinz Günter knows every barrel and every vine like the back of his hand.
Heinz Günter‘s recommendation:
Riesling »Old Vines« (white wine — dry)
Thanks to his love for wine, Fabian moved from Bavaria to the Pfalz, Nahe and finally to Rheinhessen. As an enthusiastic winemaker, his passion is to accompany the wines in their development across all steps from grape to bottle.
Fabian‘s recommendation:
Chardonnay (white wine — dry)
To move from Berlin to Rheinhessen to learn the profession of winemaking requires a dedicated person, and Rebecca is just that! As an apprentice Rebecca supports us in all areas as if she had never done anything else.
Rebecca‘s recommendation:
Albariño & Manzoni Bianco (white wine — dry)
Martin‘s passion, next to playing darts and cycling across his home terrain in thePfalz, are our vines. His responsibility is vineyard management, meaning the manual and mechanical care of our 150.000 vines.
Martin‘s recommendation:
Silvaner »Hildegard« (white wine — dry)
Growing up in her family‘s wine estate in Westhofen, Karina learned to love vineyards and wine from birth. Her happy place is the vineyard and she is also responsible for labeling and packaging our bottles.
Karina‘s recommendation:
St. Laurent Réserve (red wine — dry)
Holds family and business together. Great host and amazing chef. Without her, chaos would reign over of the office and farm. Besides that, not a single bottle of wine would arrive as quickly and with as much love to our customers.
Heike’s recommendation:
Pinot Noir Réserve (red wine — dry)
The first one to welcome you as a guest to our farm and your best friend from that moment on! Loves cardboard rolls, walnuts and sausages of all kinds.
»Each vintage challenges us anew both in the vineyard and in the winery. It is our daily drive to take this in our stride and apply this wisdom.«
Our vines grow on limestone, clay and loam-loess soils in the villages of Bermersheim vor der Höhe, Albig, and Ensheim in the middle of the wide region that is the Rhinehessen Hills. Here, we grow grapes that result in wines with fruit and minerality, with balance and finesse. Wines that each have our family‘s fingerprint.
We are certain that quality begins in the vineyard. This is why we invest so much time into the vines with the sole objective of harvesting healthy, ripe, and aromatic grapes. We reach this goal by regulating yields, smart and gentle viticultural actions, and a lot of manual work all year round.
We are undogmatic in what we do. We try to get to the bottom of things in order to stand behind our decisions. We find our own answers to issues facing us. We work sustainably. For us, this means: future-oriented.
This is why we keep our carbon footprint as low as possible. As humus is the biggest carbon reservoir of our planet, our goal is to enhance our vineyard soils by biodiverse greening and needs-oriented soil cultivation.
The energy needed in our wine cellar and warehouse is 100% supplied by solar power gathered from solar panels on the roofs of the winery buildings.
We focus on the classic white varieties, Silvaner and Riesling. We‘re curious people though and couldn’t resist planting some exotics! We also grow Auxerrois and Albariño. Our red varieties mainly consist of Pinot Noir, St. Laurent, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon. We do not only make high-quality red wine of there varieties but some vibrant rosé wine, too.
This is where the craftsmanship and passion of two generations meet. With sensitivity, intuition, the highest standards and the gentle use of modern cellar technology, Jana and Heinz Günter work side by side to make our wines.
Our white wines are mainly fermented in stainless steel tanks and most reds enjoy an extensive cellaring in our oak barrels after fermentation.
