Over the past 15 years, brothers Andreas and Bernd Spreitzer have catapulted their 17-hectare family wine estate to the upper echelons of Rheingau supremacy. Andreas sternly and justifiably insists that their home village Oestrich-Winkel (eat at Altes Rauthaus!) is at the very heart of the Rheingau, and indeed their holdings in the Lenchen, Doosberg, Jesuitengarten, Wisselbrunnen and Hendelberg vineyards serve as an all-star lineup in this famed winegrowing region.
Spreitzer’s wines manage to be eminently accommodating should you seek mere casual engagement, yet cerebrally complex for those who care to dissect them. They offer the elegance and peachy power that one expects from the Rheingau, yet a vivid sense of vibrancy and frank fruitiness that many elder estates, guilty of resting on their laurels, have managed to neglect.