VDP: What wine style do you strive for? Do you have a favourite grape variety?
Willi Haag: Our fruity Riesling wines reflect the minerality of slate, the typical terroir of the VDP.GROSSEN LAGE®…
VDP: What is so special about your winery?
Willi Haag: The oldest part of our buildings and parts of the wine cellar were built around 1500. The barrel cellar is carved into the rocks, which…
VDP: What is your winery philosophy?
Florian Lauer: Bringing the landscape into the bottle. Focus on one grape variety and still achieve a high diversity of tastes. Achieve maximum elegance…
VDP: How do you combine tradition and innovation?
Albert P. Behler: Of course we cultivate tradition! I already mentioned the "eternal viticulture". It is just as natural for us to keep our neck…
VDP: Why did you become a vintner?
Albert P. Behler: My mother worked as a farm secretary at the Karthäuserhof during the Second World War. Later she often went with us children to this great…
VDP: Which of your wines would you recommend to someone who does not yet know your winery - as an introduction, so to speak?
Albert P. Behler: Our Cabinet Rieslings, fine bitter or fruity.…
VDP: What is so special about your winery?
Albert P. Behler: The Karthäuserhof is the eighth oldest winery in the world, an icon of great Riesling tradition famous around the globe - and a…
VDP: Do you stick to traditions, if so, which ones?
Dr. Manfred Prüm: Yes, of course! See my answer to your first question. VDP: Why should I still visit your winery?
Dr. Manfred Prüm: Also…
VDP: How do you combine tradition and innovation?
Dr. Manfred Prüm: By appreciating both terms, looking at them critically and then deciding. I'm holding it to the Latin: "Quidquid agis,…
