Family estate distillery in Hallgarten producing a Riesling Tresterbrand from estate press residues. Eighteen hectares planted to 90 percent Riesling and 10 percent Spatburgunder feed the brandy alongside the wine programme.
Tasting: Distillery and estate tastings by arrangement at the guest house
Guesthouse of Weingut Balthasar Ress on the vineyard slope above Hallgarten, run from the Hattenheim estate. Vineyard-view rooms with breakfast and access to the Hallgartener Jungfer parcel that the estate works.
The list: Estate Hattenheim and Hallgarten Rieslings on the breakfast list; tasting visits to the main winery in Hattenheim
Fred Prinz at Hallgarten works the Hendelberg, Jungfer and Schoenhell to biodynamic principles, certified organic from 2013, with the cooler hill-village altitude shaping a sharper, savoury dry-Riesling style.
Tip: The Hallgartener Hendelberg GG is the wine to find; pair it with neighbour Peter Jakob Kuhn for a back-to-back biodynamic comparison.