Weingut Peter Hohn

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Peter Hohn

The estate is located in the village people village in the German wine-growing area Middle Rhine . In 1638, the village teacher Jacob derision came from near Linz a Rh people to the village and began with the wine. After training as a wine technician in Bad Kreuznach and a one-year internship at Bridgeview Vineyards in Oregon, USA is operating since 1991 in 12 Generation led by Peter Hohn. The vineyards cover 4.5 hectares of vineyards in the villages lay people Gartenlay. They are planted to 80% with Riesling and Kerner, Pinot Noir, Dornfelder and Portuguese. The quality criteria are more cautious pruning, intensive canopy management, on-time plant protection, thinning of the grapes, late harvest by hand, gentle pressing, juice clarification strong, slow fermentation in small stainless steel tanks, aging on the Lees Natural clarification of the young wines and a unique filtration. There are three product lines of wine by the glass, fine quality wines, and wines to enjoy with an artist's label. The latter wines in the hot dry area "S" (after daughter Sarah), in semi-arid area "J" (according to son John), and before reading the classical predicate names used. In addition, created under the name of "inspiration" wines in a joint venture with the winery Gotthard Emmerich.