🍷 Weingut St. Antony

Weingut St. Antony is a wine estate in Nierstein in Rheinhessen. According to the estate, it was officially founded in 1920 by the industrial company Gutehoffnungshütte, and its first vintage was 1918; Wikidata names the Gutehoffnungshütte as founder. The present owners bought it in 2005, and it has been family-owned since then.

According to the estate, it farms 60 ha, 15 ha of them on steep slopes, mainly on the Roter Hang in Nierstein, with sites in Pettenthal, Orbel, Hipping and Ölberg and two monopoles, Brudersberg and Zehnmorgen. Alongside Riesling it grows Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir and Blaufränkisch. It has been certified organic since 2006 and Demeter-certified since the 2018 vintage; since 2019 the steep sites are worked entirely by hand, and the wines ferment spontaneously.

According to the estate, it has been a member of the VDP since 1990, and most of its holdings are classified sites. From the 2019 vintage all machine work on the steep slopes was stopped; the wines ferment with wild yeast and are given time to develop. The estate’s website quotes Dirk Würtz on the challenge of organic steep-slope viticulture. Wikidata gives the address as Wilhelmstraße 4 in Nierstein and records the area as 60 hectares.

Rheinhessen is a protected designation of origin (PDO) of the EU, protected since 1973. Under the German Wine Act, a Prädikatswein receives its Prädikat only on application, with an official test number, and a Kabinett may not be enriched.

Why it matters to you. Demeter is a private biodynamic standard; the EU organic logo and the PDO Rheinhessen are the legal marks on the label. The WHO reminds: there is no safe level of alcohol.