OUR HISTORY

The history of the estate dates back over 100 years when it was established as the Royal Prussian Wine Domain. Today, the Reidel family leads the estate together with cellar master Karsten Peter and managing director Achim Kirchner.

Although there have been vineyards on the Nahe since the late Roman era the estate was founded in 1902 as a Royal Prussian Domaine. It had the task of making world-class white wines and thereby serving as an example to the winemakers of the region.

SCRUB, ROCKS AND A COPPER MINE

We didn’t inherit our vineyards like a set of antique furniture. Instead, Two-thirds of our vineyards were created from land, that was previously only scrub, rocks and an abandoned copper mine. To this day they remain works of civil engineering.

BREAKTHROUGH WITH THE VINTAGE OF THE CENTURY 1921

Our first harvest was in 1907, but it was with the nobly sweet wines of the great 1921 vintage that the estate achieved its breakthrough. From 1949 the dynamic duo of estate director Hermann Goedecke and winemaker Karl-Heinz Sattelmeyer made the estate’s wines world famous.

Für die Lagerung der Weinfässer musste ein rund 90 Meter langer Keller tief in den Berg getrieben werden.
Die Bevölkerung aus der Umgebung besucht zum Erntefest die junge, festlich geschmückte Domäne. Von: Gutsdirektor Vinzenz Schmanck
Die Gebäude der Domäne um 1913
1981 heiratet Diana Spencer den britischen Thronfolger Charles. Bei der Hochzeitsfeier mit höchstrangigen Politikern, Würdenträgern, Adligen sowie Prominenten wird eine 1959-er Kupfergrube Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese der Staatsdomäne ausgeschenkt.
1991 gewinnt der 1983-er Hermannsberg Riesling Eiswein (1.) beim international renommierten ,,International Wine and Spirit Competition" als einziger deutscher Wein eine begehrte ,,Gold Trophy".
Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl überreicht dem französischen Staatspräsidenten Francois Mitterand am 24. April 1986 eine 1916-er ,,Schlossböckelheimer Kupfergrube Riesling Auslese" als Gastgeschenk. Der Wein stammt aus dem Geburtsjahr Mitterands.
In der Schatzkammer lagern Weine seit dem Jahrgang 1909. Der Staub eines Jahrhunderts umschließt die Flaschen aus alter Zeit.
Weinflaschen aus allen Dekaden des Weinguts Gut Hermannsberg
Der Fasskeller der Domäne

SINCE 2009 A STRONG TEAM AGAIN

In 1998 the estate was privatized by the state of Rheinland-Pfalz and in 2009 the Reidel family purchased it. They appointed winemaker Karsten Peter, then Philipp Wolf vineyard manager. In 2010 the former Nahe State Domaine was renamed Gut Hermannsberg. The cellar was modernized and the estate buildings were renovated. A new definition of quality and a new working philosophy built upon it were introduced.

A GREAT TRADITION REINVENTED

Our philosophy is a new interpretation of the great tradition of Gut Hermannsberg, focussed on dry whites instead of the sweet masterpieces of the past. The international critics are seriously impressed and Gut Hermannsberg once again belongs to the first league of German Riesling producers.