Wines
Prinz von Hessen
Rheingau
The estate Prinz von Hessen lies in Johannisberg in the Rheingau or "Rhine District" near Wiesbaden, the heart of German viticulture. The estate is headed by Landgrave Moritz von Hessen and his son, Prince Donatus. Since 1956, the estate has gathered a great collection of wine rarities that often yield high sums at first standard wine auctions.
Prinz von Hessen is one of Germany’s leading Riesling producers and member of the Association of German Predicate Wine Estates (VDP). In the Rheingau, Spätlese (late-harvest wine) was discovered and optimized. Monks from the Cloisters Eberbach and Johannisberg introduced Riesling wine culture in the eighteenth century. Sited in a unique cultural landscape, the Rheingau’s viticulture epitomized the standard for viticulture in Germany at the end of the nineteenth century. With the harvest of 1999, wines from classified sites in Germany garnered the top-level designation "Erstes Gewächs" ("First Growth") for the first time. This classification also originates from the Rheingau, as do many quality establishing innovations.
Around 60 percent of the estate Prinz von Hessen’s wine sites are classified as First Growth Sites (Erste Gewächslagen) such as: Johannisberger Klaus, Winkeler Hasensprung and Winkeler Jesuitengarten.
