An Eltville-Martinsthal family estate of 18.8 ha (82% Riesling, 18% Spatburgunder) run by the fifth-generation Seyffardts in a 17th-century barrel cellar.
Address: Hauptstrasse 9-11, 65344 Eltville-Martinsthal, Germany, Rheingau
Jonas Freimuth's 12.1 ha Geisenheim-Marienthal estate, 65% Riesling and 35% Pinot family; three VDP.Grosse Lage sites in the Rheingau and whole-bunch fermentation.
Tasting: Tastings by appointment at the Marienthal hamlet above Geisenheim; whole-bunch fermentations and lengthy lees ageing.
A Lorch family domain documented from the 13th century, 14.5 ha on grey slate and quartzite; 70% Riesling, 28% Burgundy family, and tastings in a 14th-century tower.
Tasting: Tastings inside the 14th-century tower cellar at Rheinstrasse 49 in Lorch; group programmes and Lorcher Schlossberg vineyard walks by appointment.
ECOVIN-organic Lorch estate of 6 ha across Lorcher Schlossberg, Krone, Pfaffenwies and Bodental-Steinberg plus an Assmannshausen Hollenberg parcel.
Tasting: ECOVIN-organic estate offering tastings, cooking classes and a casual Strausswirtschaft at Rheinstrasse 21 in Lorch.
A 2013-founded Oestrich-Winkel estate by Pascal Bibo and Christian Runge, working Hallgartener Jungfer and Schonhell with skin-contact Rieslings and basket Pinot.
Tasting: Tastings and Vinothek visits by appointment at Eberbacher Strasse 5 in Oestrich-Winkel; skin-contact, basket-pressed Rieslings and Pinot Noir.
A Johannisberg family estate documented from 1670, 15 ha on Taunus quartzite around Johannisberg; named Discovery of the Year by Gault Millau in 2008.
Tasting: Family Vinothek and tastings at the Johannisberg estate; visits cover the Taunus quartzite parcels and the Frisian island offshoot.
Bernd and Ralf Schonleber's 11.7 ha Oestrich-Winkel estate, 94% Riesling; about 22,000 bottles a year of traditional-method Lagen-Sekt alongside still wines.
Tasting: Tastings by appointment in Oestrich-Winkel; speciality in single-vineyard traditional-method Sekt with extended bottle ageing.
