With young winemaker Stefan Winter at the helm, Weingut Winter has experienced a real breakthrough in the last decade. The talented winemaker from Rheinhessen has enchanted with individual wines whose minerality and cleanliness simply inspire. Stefan has managed to get his winery into the circle of German Prädikatsweingüter (VDP) and brought Weingut Winter to the top of Germany’s quality wine production designation. The estate is located in the town of Dittelsheim-Hessloch (Bereich Wonnegau) at the foot of the Kloppberg in the Rheinhessen region. Stefan, who took over the wineryfrom his father in 2000 comments  “With a lot of patience and only with the help of wild yeast indigenous to the vineyard, I concentrate on emphasizing the undiluted potential of the grapes.” Stefan Winter is also a founding member of the wine group "Message in a bottle", which groups around twenty young wine makers from Rheinhessen in their quest for quality and renovation.