VDP: Why did you become a vintner?
Rudolf May: My father was a farmer who also had a small vineyard from which he supplied grapes to wine producers. Through this, I came into contact with vines…
VDP: Which of your wines would you recommend to someone who does not yet know your winery – as an introduction, so to speak?
Rudolf May: Retzstadt Silvaner VDP.ORTSWEIN – mineral with a certain…
VDP: What is your winery philosophy?
Rudolf May: We try to make the shell limestone soil that prevails here perceptible in our wines by using chemicals as little as possible in the vineyard and…
VDP: What is so special about your winery?
Rudolf May: The unusually high share of Silvaner vines. Our wines are very mineral and have extremely low residual sugar, usually less than 2.0 g/l. In…
VDP: Of which wine are you particularly proud?
Horst Kolesch: VDP.ERSTE LAGE® Würzburg Stein Silvaner dry. It is produced through spontaneous fermentation in large wooden barrels in the historic…
VDP: Which of your wines would you recommend to someone who does not yet know your winery – as an introduction, so to speak?
Horst Kolesch: VDP.ERSTE LAGE® Würzburger Stein Silvaner trocken. This…
VDP: What is your winery philosophy?
Peter Geil: Predominantly spontaneous fermentation in large wooden barrels with prolonged lees contact for VDP single vineyard wines and VDP.GROSSES GEWÄCHS®…
VDP: What is so special about your winery?
Peter Geil: Castell itself is a picturesque wine village steeped in history and it is home to the castle of the dedicated family Fürst zu…
VDP: What is so special about your winery?
Robert Haller: First of all, the full range from VDP.GUTSWEIN to the highest qualities have a consistent mineral style that makes our wines optimal food…
