Martin Schgraffer

Martin is based back home in South Tyrol (near Bolzano) and his path is the opposite of shortcuts: he studied viticulture & oenology in San Michele and Geisenheim, then went out to learn in real cellars and real harvest pressure — Oregon, plus time on the Nahe with the famous german winery Dönnhoff. After that he spent six years at Ansitz Dolomytos, before returning fully to his own place. Since 2023, it’s been 100% his project, his vineyards, his decisions.

Domaine Lassak

Domaine Lassak is one of those young German estates that feels less like a project and more like a statement. Based in Württemberg, Stefanie and Fabian Lassak work some of the region’s steep, terraced Muschelkalk slopes with a clarity of vision that immediately sets them apart. Steffi studied in Geisenheim and spent extended time working in Austria and Burgundy, where she sharpened her understanding of precision and finesse during formative time at Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair in Vosne-Romanée. While Fabi is a trained viticulture technician with a deep understanding of vineyard structure and balance. This shared foundation shapes their approach — thoughtful farming, clarity of intention, and wines built on tension rather than volume.

Lukas Hammelmann

In the quiet, open fields of Zeiskam in the southern Pfalz, Lukas Hammelmann is showing how much character can rise from a landscape long dismissed as too flat, too easy, too ordinary. This isn’t postcard wine country — and that’s exactly what makes his work so compelling. He’s not trying to borrow prestige. He’s building his own.

Rather than leaving for the “famous” slopes, he chose to trust the soils beneath his feet — loess for finesse, limestone for tension, sandstone for momentum, and old terraces that carry depth and memory. His parcels are small and intentional, organically farmed, and worked with the belief that honesty isn’t a marketing line — it’s something you earn, season after season, in the vineyard.

Winery Andres

In the northern Pfalz, where the vineyards of Deidesheim catch the day’s first and last light, Weingut Andres has quietly forged its own direction. When brothers Thomas and Michael Andres took over the family estate in 2015, their goal wasn’t noise but clarity — a clearer purpose, a clearer sense of origin, and wines that speak in full sentences rather than headlines.

Their vines sit on a layered mix of weathered sandstone, limestone, and marl, soils that naturally lend both brightness and calm. The work in the vineyard is organic, deliberate, and unhurried — the kind of approach where precision is earned through repetition, not through ego. Long before anything reaches the cellar, the decisions are already made among the rows: what to keep, what to sacrifice, how to hold freshness without chasing it.

Winery Kissinger–Bähr

WINEMAKER Winery Kissinger–Bähr Established in 2016 in Uelversheim, Rhenish Hesse In Uelversheim, Rheinhessen, Moritz Kissinger has quietly become one of the clearest references for what the new German Chardonnay era can look like: less about volume, more about precision. His mindset is rooted in biodynamic farming and a low-intervention cellar approach, with a relentless focus […]