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"Harvest good, all is well!"
After all, we winemakers are rarely satisfied with the weather, most of the time you hear us complain, too wet or too dry, too cold or too warm. Looking back, we are really satisfied with the weather at the beginning of the year.
Sufficient precipitation in winter and spring came early. Not too cold or too warm, unspectacular in the best sense.

"The wines will taste cooler than in other hot years".
The 2020 wine year, like the previous two years, was again characterized by a very warm summer in which our vineyards received very little rainfall. This resulted in a somewhat smaller crop, but one that produced wonderful concentration in the berries. The much cooler weather in the main ripening phase in September, brought a vibrant acidity that literally put the musts under tension. These characteristics will distinguish the 2020 wines with a style all their own.

The rain at the beginning of the ripening process in August (perfect timing) and continuing warm weather in August and September pushed the development of the grapes along. Very good ripeness, ideal acidity structure and perfectly clean grapes made us hungry for more.

Stuart Pigott writes about our 2018 local wines "Vom Schiefer" and "Vom Vulkan"

Gut Hermannsberg has launched a revolutionary white wine called "7Terroirs". The 2018 dry Riesling redefines the estate Riesling category. Now we can take stock of the wave of responses. Did we miss the target or hit the bulls eye?

FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF A WINEMAKER THE GROWING SEASON OF 2018 COULD HARDLY HAVE BEEN MORE EXTREME. THERE WAS SUCH A GREAT SUMMER AND IT LASTED SO LONG! HISTORY TEACHES THAT IN SUCH YEARS, FOR EXAMPLE 1959 AND 1976, THE RIESLINGS FROM THIS PART OF THE NAHE SHINE. AND THAT#S HOW IT IS ONCE AGAIN IN 2018!

Extreme selection results in extreme concentration. The 2015 TBA from Gut Hermannsberg, harvested from old vines in the Kupfergrube site is the perfect example of this. Wine critic Stephan Reinhardt tasted it for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate and gave it a perfect 100 points rating.