VDP: What are your next goals?
Hansjörg Rebholz: To successfully pass on the business to my two sons. The experience comes from me, the curiosity more from the next generation. In my opinion,…
VDP: Of which wine are you particularly proud?
Hansjörg Rebholz: Of our VDP.GROSSES GEWÄCHS® KASTANIENBUSCH Riesling GG. Year after year, it is a new and unique wine, which has become…
VDP: What is your winery philosophy?
Hansjörg Rebholz: We took over the idea of natural wine from our grandfather and continued it. The ‘natural wine idea’ means as little adulteration as…
“GERMAN WINES WILL GAIN INCREASINGLY IN INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE, BECAUSE OUR COOL CLIMATE AND TERROIR IMPARTS INIMITABLE FINESSE AND LIGHTNESS, YET ALSO LENGTH AND DELICACY.
VDP: What is so special about your winery?
Hansjörg Rebholz: We have a very long tradition and have worked for at least 400 years in Siebeldingen, one of the most beautiful landscapes in the…
VDP: How do you combine tradition and innovation?
Jan Eymael: As the saying goes, ‘tradition means passing the torch and not the worship of ashes’. Anyone who stops will be overtaken. Stagnation…
VDP: Why did you become a vintner?
Jan Eymael: When you grow up as part of a wine-growing family, you come into contact with the daily work at the winery and in the vineyard very early on. You…
VDP: Which of your wines would you recommend to someone who doesn't yet know your winery – as an introduction, so to speak?
Jan Eymael: First a Riesling, namely our Riesling VDP.GUTSWEIN "EY mal…
