Owner: Land Hessen Managing director: Volker Hörr (Betriebsleiter) Cellar master: Thomas Löffler
Cultivated area: 34.80 ha
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One of the largest and most important wine estates in Germany, with ist headquarters in Eltville in the Rheingau wine-growing region in Germany. The full and correct name is “Hessische Staatsweingüter Kloster Eberbach“. Most of the vineyard holdings date back to the 12th centuries, when Cistercian monks founded the famous Kloster Eberbach abbey here. The abbey attached to this monastery is available for a number of events these days, for instance the annual wine auctions. The property of the abbey was secularised under Napoleon (1769-1821) in 1803. The new owner was the duke of Nassau, then the Prussian kingdom from 1866, and the federal state of Hessen since 1945. Well-known wine author and journalist Dr. Hans Ambrosi (born 1925) was the general manager of the operation from 1966 to 1990. The general manager today is Dieter Greiner. The state winery of Hessen is made up of seven properties with a total of three cellars. The Bensheim domain is the only one located in the Hessische Bergstraße wine-growing region. Grand duke of Hessen-Darmstadt founded this estate in 1904, the vineyard holdings total 38 hectares, with holdings in the following vineyard sites: Lagen Heppenheimer Centgericht and Steinkopf, and a monopole holding of the Schönberger Herrnwingert. The main grape variety planted is Riesling (25 ha), as well as Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris. The red wine estate Assmannshausen in the Rheingau has a vineyard area of 27 hectares in the Höllenberg site, of which 25 hectares are planted with Pinot Noir. These two estates do their own bottling, and market the wines under their own names. The five remaining estates in the Rheingau are Hattenheim (50 ha vineyard area in the Engelmannsberg, Siegelsberg and Marcobrunn sites), Hochheim (Domdechaney site), Rauenthal (48 ha in the Baiken, Gehrn and Wülfen sites), Rüdesheim (23 ha in the Berg Roseneck, Berg Rottland and Berg Schlossberg sites) and Steinberg (32 ha in the eponymous Steinberg site, a monopole holding). Since 1976, these estates have been delivering their grapes to the central cellars in Eltville, which were built at the beginning of the 20th century. Here the wines are made, matured, bottled and sold. The total vienyard area of the estates comes to more than 200 hectares, of which 85% are planted with Riesling, 10% with Pinot Noir and 5% with other varieties. Fermentation of the wines is slow, and they are kept on the lees for an extended period. Around 90% of the wines are matured in stainless steel tanks, but there is an increasing trend to go back to oak barrels again. The estate is a member of the VDP (Verband deutscher Prädikats- und Qualitäts-Weingüter) association.
The vintage 2007
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