Got an e-mail a few days ago from the Deutsches Weininstitut, or German Wine Institue.
Gault Millau Wine Guide just announced the top wineries for 2007. This is the German Wine Guide from Germany. They rate winemakers by Grape Clusters 1 to 5. And this year the wineries with five grape clusters are:
- Weingut Fritz Haag, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
- Weingut Reinhold Haart, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
- Weingut Dr. Loosen, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
- Weingut Egon Müller – Scharzhof, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
- Weingut Joh. Jos. Prüm, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer
- Weingut Hermann Dönnhoff, Nahe
- Weingut Emrich-Schönleber, Nahe
- Weingut Ökonomierat Rebholz, Pfalz
- Weingut Robert Weil, Rheingau
- Weingut Keller, Rheinhessen
The winemaker of the year is Theo Haart of Weingut Reinhold Haart in Piesport on the Mosel.
And the rising star of the year is Rainer Schnaitmann from Fellbach in Württemberg.
