Nonnenberg

Nonnenberg is a single vineyard in Rauenthal in the Rheingau. The officially listed wine-growing area comprises 5.6 hectares and is planted exclusively with Riesling.

The site is on a steep slope facing south. Its deep, stony phyllite soils are supplemented in the lower part of the slope by loess and clay.

The Georg Breuer winery owns Nonnenberg entirely. According to the producer, some of the vines are more than 70 years old. The name refers to nuns of the Abbey of Tiefenthal, who previously owned and cultivated the slope and associated buildings.

The Riesling associated with the site stands for full-bodied wines with fine spice and racy acidity, as well as for a longer ageing potential. The 2020 vintage is described as extremely powerful, mineral, firmly structured and complex, with spicy notes of red apple and juicy citrus fruit. For the 2022 vintage, the producer documented manual work in the vineyard, precise selection of the grapes, and eleven months of maturation in old casks with 1,200 and 600 litres of volume.