Herzer Stephan

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The winery is located in the municipality of Roßbach (Neuenburg Castle area), a district of Naumburg in the German wine-growing region of Saale-Unstrut. It was founded in 1992 and is now owned by Andrea (business economist) and Stephan Herzer (graduate engineer in viticulture and cellar management). In 2000, they acquired a historic farm in the centre of Roßbach, which was restored and converted into a winery. The vineyards cover 21 hectares of vines in the single vineyard sites Steinmeister (Naumburg) and Rappental (Dorndorf). They are 80% planted with the white wine varieties Pinot Blanc, Müller-Thurgau, Riesling, Silvaner,Pinot Gris, Gutedel (Chasselas), Bacchus and Kerner, and 20% with the red wine varieties Dornfelder, Blauer Portugieser, Zweigelt and André.

Environmentally friendly viticulture is practised with, for example, cover crop and harmonious plant nutrition. The use of the confusion method(pheromone trap) means that insecticides are not used at all. Only physiologically ripe, healthy grapes are processed through consistent yield reduction with targeted manual thinning. The pure musts are vinified with controlled fermentation to produce fresh and fruity, mainly dry, but also semi-dry and sweet white wines, whereby great importance is attached to varietal and site-specific vinification typical of the region. The dry red wines are traditionally mash-fermented and matured in barriques. Noble sweet Prädikat wines, bottle-fermented sparkling wines and noble brandies (marc) are also produced.

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