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Wine Description
The Story
The Eberbach Monastery is not only the most valuable wine estate in Germany, it is also the German wine estate having the most steep slopes (70 hectares with a gradient of more than 35 %).It was recognized early at the Eberbach Monastery that special wines grow on the steep slopes in the Rheingau. This consideration shaped the cultural landscape in a special way in the past and still does so today.
Vintage 1999
The 1999 German wine harvest stands as an abundant, warm, and highly generous vintage across the Mosel, Saar, Ruwer, Nahe, and Rheingau, marked by an exceptional late summer that drove high natural sugars and lush fruit concentration. While heavy late-September rains diluted grape sugars and lowered natural acidity across over-cropped flatland sites, top producers on steep, slate-rich hillsides implemented rigorous selection to craft expressiv...
