Weingut PRINZ VON HESSEN
Johannisberg im Rheingau
Grund 1
D-65366 Geisenheim
Tel: +49 67 22 - 409 18 0
Fax: +49 67 22 - 409 18 20
Email: info@prinz-von-hessen.de
Weingut PRINZ VON HESSEN
Johannisberg im Rheingau
Grund 1
D-65366 Geisenheim
Tel: +49 67 22 - 409 18 0
Fax: +49 67 22 - 409 18 20
Email: info@prinz-von-hessen.de
The estate PRINZ VON HESSEN lies in Johannisberg in the Rheingau or "Rhine
District" near Wiesbaden, the heart of German viticulture. It is one
of Germany's leading Riesling producers and member of the Association of German
Predicate Wine Estates (VDP). In the Rheingau Spätlese (late-harvest
wine) was discovered and optimized. Monks from the Cloisters Eberbach and
Johannisberg introduced Riesling wine culture in the eighteenth century. Sited
in a unique cultural landscape, the Rheingau's viticulture epitomized the
standard for viticulture in Germany at the end of the nineteenth century.
Today the Rheingau and the Estate PRINZ VON HESSEN as well provide vital impulses
for the further development of the quality and prestige of German wines. With
the harvest of 1999, wines from classified sites in Germany garnered the top-level
designation "Erstes Gewächs" ("First Growth") for
the first time. This classification also originates from the Rheingau-as do
many quality establishing innovations.
From left to right: Estate Director Clemens Kiefer with Donatus Prince von Hessen, Business Director of Hessische Haussstiftung