Schloss Johannisberg is widely considered to be one of the most famed and historic estates in Germany, having first been founded as a wine-producing Benedictine Monastery in 1100. The estate changed hands many times over the following six centuries but it took its first step towards quality viticulture in 1720, when it was entirely replanted with Riesling vines. To this day, the notable Schloss Johannisberg winery, which overlooks Germany’s picturesque Rhine River, is synonymous with Riesling and makes some of the finest, most long-lived expressions of this noble grape variety.

2020 was another very warm year, with temperatures in the summer months above the long-term average. An early budding and then flowering lead to the harvest starting 14 days earlier than usual. At harvest, the grapes were perfectly ripe and healthy - another excellent vintage.