The Wine Estate – Wine Cellars Hundreds of years of tradition in craftsmanship combined with modern techniques of wine-making lay the foundation stone of our high quality standards. Schloss Reinhartshausen has a particularly careful way of cultivating its vines which naturally also affects the style of our wines. The wine is treated very carefully: grapes from our prime sites are transported in small fibre crates and arrive completely unmarked for pressing. An exact quantity of grapes is being processed to allow a very careful pressing of the grapes. The cellar master produces the top wines in small stainless steel tanks in order to preserve the characteristics of each of the top class sites of Erbach and Hattenheim. With individual temperature levels he controls the fermentation, allowing the wine more time to ripen and protecting the subtle fruity aromas. Particularly powerful wines with potential for longer ripening time are stored in wood barrels traditional to the Rheingau. These “double-piece barrels” give the wine the finishing touch and enhance their varietal and typical character of the site. All wines are carefully filtered before bottling. A certain number of the many tastings are used by the Cellar master and Estate manager to make their choices of the wines and barrels assigned for individual bottling. Whilst excellent Rieslings are already being chosen for the Cuvée of the “Gutswein” (Estate wines), top class are undoubtedly the wines which are sold with the labels of individual sites. Wine tasting/Cellar tours