About Hungermüller Winery
Hungermüller Winery consists of Heike and Ralf, two winemakers’ children, who bring their shared love of winemaking into the bottle. Both love working in nature and in the cellar, and having created a great bottle of wine that brings joy to many people makes the two winemakers proud. Because this way they can show how fantastic their home in Dittelsheim-Heßloch in Rhenish Hesse tastes.
In addition to a lot of love, the wines also contain a lot of patience. Because the wines are given a lot of time by the winery – during fermentation, clarification, and maturation. The result is handmade wines in small editions that reflect the winery – Rhenish Hesse with its differentiated soils, the passion and courage of the winemakers, respect for nature, and a lot of heart and soul. Filled with love indeed!
Winemakers from Rhenish Hesse with heart and soul
Both winemakers grew up in wineries with the vineyards, the grapes, and the wine. Although both initially chose other career paths, the connection to the subject of wine was always there.
Only when Heike and Ralf found each other did the dream of their own wine become a reality. Heike gives up her job as a business IT specialist and works full-time at the winery – and even completes a third vocational training.
Ralf continues to work in his job as a computer scientist and supports Heike and his father Werner in his free time at the winery. Heike and Ralf convert the former barrel wine operation and start producing bottled wines. In the summer of 2020, Heike successfully completed her training as a winemaker at the LWG Veitshöchheim. The first official vintage is the 2019 (Silvaner 2018) and was bottled in 2020.
Respect for nature in viticulture
Hungermüller Winery uses all resources sparingly. Each vineyard is a complex structure that is treated gently. The winery respects nature and the environment, refrains from using herbicides, and practices environmentally friendly plant protection.
Handwork is the program in the vineyard. Even when planting the small vines, large machines are avoided, the planting is done by hand. All foliage work on the vine is done by hand: cutting vines, lifting and tying, stapling and defoliating. The grape harvest also takes place by hand wherever possible.
Hungermüller Winery: Winemakers with the highest quality standards
Quality is the highest goal for the winemakers. Since only small quantities are bottled, the wines can be processed and treated particularly gently and carefully. This means they are gently pressed, pumped, and have plenty of time to sediment and mature.
The wines are not filtered until bottling and are all vegan. Since the winery only harvests healthy grapes, processes very small quantities, and gives the wines as much time as they need, handmade individual pieces that convince come out.
