An 800-year-old Riesling-only estate above Winkel, with Greiffenclau wine sales to the Mainz St. Viktorstift from 1211; 68 ha planted entirely to Riesling.
Tasting: Vinothek Monday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00, Hofausschank wine-tavern Saturday-Sunday and holidays 12:00 to 18:00, group tastings for 12+ by appointment.
Demeter-certified Oestrich-Winkel estate working 22.9 ha biodynamically across Schonhell, Lenchen, Jungfer, Sankt Nikolaus and Doosberg; biodynamic reference.
Tasting: Demeter-certified estate offering tastings by appointment at the Muhlstrasse vinothek; spontaneous fermentations and natural-cellar approach explained at visits.
Brothers Andreas and Bernd Spreitzer's 35 ha estate in Oestrich-Winkel, working 97% Riesling across Lenchen, Doosberg, Wisselbrunnen and the Rosengarten parcel.
Tasting: Family-run estate with tastings in a 1743 vaulted cellar; visits by appointment, with focus on Oestricher Lenchen, Doosberg and Hattenheimer Wisselbrunnen.
Wegeler-Drieseberg family estate at Friedensplatz in Oestrich, 41.7 ha all Riesling working Berg Schlossberg, Lenchen, Doosberg and Geisenheimer Rothenberg.
Tasting: Gutshaus tastings, Vinothek and wine garden at Friedensplatz; visits by appointment; the family also runs estates on the Mosel.
Long-established Oestrich-Winkel family estate (cited to 1292) of 65.6 ha across the Rheingau; in conversion to organic with the Allendorf Weinforum tasting hub.
Tasting: Allendorf Weinforum tastings and restaurant in Oestrich-Winkel; flights, vineyard tours and seasonal events.
Peter Querbach's 10 ha Oestrich estate across Doosberg, Lenchen, Schonhell and Hasensprung; spontaneous ferments and long lees ageing.
Tasting: Family Vinothek and tastings by appointment in Oestrich; visits cover Doosberg, Lenchen, Schonhell and Hasensprung.
Desiree Eser's 12.2 ha Oestrich estate, 90% Riesling and 10% Spatburgunder, with traditional Stuckfass ageing in a 350-year-old vaulted cellar at Friedensplatz.
Tasting: Tastings by appointment in the 350-year-old vaulted cellar at Friedensplatz 19; estate wines mature in classical oak Stuckfass.
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.
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.
Hamm family Oestrich-Winkel estate of 6 ha, EU-organic and over 90% Riesling, with a Gutsausschank wine-tavern at Hauptstrasse 60.
Tasting: EU-organic family estate with a Gutsausschank wine-tavern in Oestrich; tastings paired with seasonal Rheingau dishes.
A long-running Oestrich-Winkel family estate in family ownership since 1710; about 12 ha of Riesling-led, spontaneously fermented, lees-aged wines.
Tasting: Tastings by appointment at the Rheingaustrasse cellar in Oestrich-Winkel; focus on natural ferments and lees-aged Riesling.
Corvers-Kauter Oestrich-Winkel estate (Mittelheim) merged from two predecessors in 1996; 13 ha of Riesling and Spatburgunder with a Gutsausschank tasting garden.
Tasting: Gutsausschank tasting garden in Mittelheim with regional cuisine, plus group tastings by appointment.
A Schonleber family Oestrich-Winkel estate working 90% Riesling across Oestrich, Mittelheim, Winkel and Hallgarten; Michael Schonleber trained at Geisenheim.
Tasting: Family Vinothek and Strausswirtschaft on the Marktstrasse in Oestrich-Winkel; tastings by appointment, Geisenheim-educated winemaker.
Private Rheingau icons day tour by Winekeller from Frankfurt visiting Schloss Vollrads, Schloss Johannisberg and Kloster Eberbach with cellar visits and tastings of estate Rieslings.
Wegeler estate sparkling-wine programme in Oestrich-Winkel, pouring Riesling and Pinot Sekt from estate base wines in the vinothek.
The list: The Wegeler estate sparkling-wine programme in Oestrich-Winkel, pouring Riesling and Pinot Sekt from estate base wines for tasting in the vinothek
Tip: Pair the Sekt flight with the still Geheimrat J Riesling to see the estate's two faces side by side.
Peter Jakob Kuhn farmed biodynamic from 2004 and was Demeter-certified from 2009, working the Doosberg, Lenchen, Hendelberg and Jungfer for low-intervention dry Riesling and Spaetburgunder in Oestrich.
Tip: Compare the Doosberg and Lenchen dry Rieslings side by side; the same biodynamic farming reads two single sites a few hundred metres apart.