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 […]