Hessische Staatsweingüter GmbH Kloster Eberbach

Dieter Greiner

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The "Hessian State Wine Domains GmbH Kloster Eberbach" with headquarters in the former Cistercian Abbey of Eberbach in the German wine-growing region Rheingau is around 220 hectares, the largest winery in Germany. Most of the vineyards is on monastic property to the 12th Century back, when the Cistercian monastery here the famous Eberbach established. In 1803, under Napoleon (1769-1821) owned the monastery secularized. The new owner was the Duke of Nassau-Usingen, from the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 and since 1946 the state of Hesse. The well-known wine journalist, Dr. Hans Hans Ambrosi (* 1925) from 1966 to 1990 Head of the enterprise. Today's CEO, Dieter Greiner. In the rooms of the monastery today are solemn events such as the annual auctions held. The winery has three domains, each with its own wine cellar for the expansion of the wines.

The domain Bensheim is the only region in the Hessian Mountain Road . The vineyards of this in 1904 by Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, founded the estate includes 38 hectares in the individual layers Kalkgasse (Bensheim), court cents and Steinkopf (Heppenheim), and Mr. Wingert (Schoenberg). Mainly, Riesling, and Pinot Noir grown smaller areas, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris.

The red-domain Assmannshausen in the growing region Rheingau comprises 17 hectares of vineyards in the individual situation Höllenberg exclusively with Pinot Noir, Pinot Noir and 18 acres in Rüdesheim Berg. The Rheingau Riesling grapes from the vineyards cover 147 hectares. These will be opened in 2008, Steinberg basement of the domain Steinberg introduced. The majority of documents are as Rheingau First layer classified. The best known are Rottland Mountain , Mountain Roseneck and Berg Schlossberg (Rüdesheim) (Had at home), Marcobrunn (Lauterbach), Baiken and Gehrn (Rauenthal), of Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden), and Domdechaney and Hell (Oxford).

There are two main varieties are Riesling (85%) and Pinot Noir (10%). In order to allow a slow and uniform fermentation, the temperature of the cooling water via a modern carbon dioxide control is regulated. Then follows a long yeast storage. The expansion of the Riesling grape is almost exclusively carried out in stainless steel tanks, the only top-quality wines is expanding the traditional half-(600 l), Track (1200 l) and face-barrel (2400 l) reserved. The expansion of the Pinot Noir wines are 100% in oak barrels in almost exclusively piece barrel size. Each year over 1.9 million bottles of wine sold. The winery is a founding member of the VDP .