Food & Drink

We are the Schier winery - Florian, Elena, Brigitte, Gotthard and Viola. 

We cultivate special and sustainable Piwi wines from the Moselle and focus on genuine craftsmanship & more biodiversity. This makes our wines strong in character and more climate-friendly.

...handmade grape production
 & careful vinification

I see it as a gift to carry on the vineyard parcels that my parents have painstakingly acquired.
It is important to me to cultivate our wine culture and to preserve my personal wine values. I pay particular attention to sustainability and the biodynamics of my vineyard soils.
I turn these grapes into "individual wine personalities" in the best sense of the word, with the guidance of nature, with craftsmanship and a great deal of dedication.
To your health

Jörg Josef Lehmen

As a family winery, we work together every day with heart and soul and passion towards our goal: to bring wines with character and quality into the glass. A combination of the unique Moselle steep slopes and our targeted manual labour plays a decisive role here.

This gives us the opportunity to immortalise this concise expression of nature in our wines. Wine - it's simply in our blood, it's our life and our passion at the same time.

"Three generations and a black cat"

If we had to describe our winery in one word, it would be "family business". Because without the “family”, the “business” would not be possible.

In the 1980s, our grandmother Elli, as a young widow, took over the former Mesenich winery and laid the foundations for today's winery. With the support of her daughter Maria and son-in-law Uwe Baldes, they planted new areas and steadily expanded the business over the years.

Since 2016, their daughters Franziska and Lydia, as well as Lydia's husband Maximilian Franzen, have been bringing a breath of fresh air to the estate with their “Young Generations Wines”. Our Maximilian has increased the focus on Rieslings from the steep slope. He himself comes from a traditional winery in Bremm on the Moselle and spent his childhood in what are probably the steepest vineyards in Europe, the Bremmer Calmont. From his parents, Iris and Ulrich Franzen, he probably simply has the passion for the Moselle steep slopes in his blood. Lydia and Maximilian are particularly passionate about the original Zeller Schwarze Katz vineyard “the Zeller Petersborn Kabertchen”.

Our family winery is growing... In 2023, Franziska married Philipp Simon and together they created our Pinot Blanc line. Philipp also produces the world's best honey for us.

black cat?- anyone who pays close attention to our labels and has already visited us at the winery will certainly have seen our secret star at the winery. Our house cat ‘Jacky’. He was our very own Zeller black cat and has become a little legend of his own for us.

Pure craftsmanship in the steep slopes of Briedel and Pünderich on the Terrassenmosel. We prioritise quality over quantity for all our Rieslings, Pinot Blancs and Pinot Noirs, which means that we harvest around 40% less than many other wineries in the region. In the cellar, we work with gravity, maceration, spontaneous fermentation and long yeast storage. This allows us to produce multi-layered wines with a special combination of freshness, fruit, elegance, fine slate flavour and cool minerality.

We give our wine everything it needs to be great.

We make organic wine out of conviction. To make good wine, we believe you need good vineyards with healthy soils. Almost all of our vineyards are located on steep slopes, as this is where the vines have the best opportunity to develop their full potential under the influence of sun, rain and wind. The steep slopes along the Terrassenmosel consist of slate, which gives the wine its characteristic flavour. All our vineyards are cultivated according to ecological guidelines. This way of working in harmony with nature makes our vineyards the most beautiful workplace in the world for us! On the steep slopes, almost all the work is carried out lovingly by hand.

In the wine cellar, we rely on controlled idleness, so that all musts are fermented spontaneously and matured without fining agents.  Our wines and sparkling wines are therefore also vegan. In addition, all wines are given the time they need to reach optimum maturity. We are sure that you can smell and taste this.

An important positive side effect of organic viticulture for us is the maintenance and preservation of the cultural landscape and the creation of habitats for herbs, plants and animals.

In the distillery, we focus on our pomace brandies and the herbal range: gin, herbal liqueur and vermouth. All herbs are grown in our own herb garden.

We no longer know exactly how it all began in 1712, when our ancestors first devoted themselves to viticulture.

What we do know, however, is that this millennia-old cultural asset, wine, continues to inspire us today. Although technology may have developed further, wine remains a natural product whose highest quality can only be achieved in harmony with nature.

We have always taken this idea into account, which is why we decided in 2013 to switch our business to organic viticulture. After three years of conversion, we have now achieved this goal and are delighted to have become a member of the ECOVIN association of organic wineries.

The different characters and backgrounds of our team as well as the suggestions of our friends and customers are still a guarantee for new ideas and characterise our reputation as a small and dynamic winery.

Whether you are a connoisseur or a curious explorer - we invite you to visit us.

Be it on the Internet, on the beautiful Lower Rhine or at our headquarters on the Moselle, where you can get a first-hand impression of the winery in Pünderich and the charming river landscape with its breathtaking, steep vine-covered slopes.

Three heads - Two generations - One winery

... there is no better way to describe us.

We are Elke, Elmar and Nico Simonis and are the 5th generation to run our winery together.

What makes us special?

Three personalities from two generations pursuing a common goal: 

the love of wine.

How does that work?

Mutual respect, closeness to nature and the joy of enjoyment form the basis of our joint work. 

To par

aphrase John Ernst Steinbeck:

"The younger generation is the arrow, the older generation is the bow"

That's four ... The Blümling family
Michael & Barbara with our children Rosa and Caspar. Family winery in Neef with steep-slope wines of strong character since 2014.

For Michael, it was clear since childhood that there would be no other profession than winemaking for him. Influenced by his grandfather Aloys Blümling, he was inspired and enthusiastic about viticulture and nature from a very early age. As the winemaking profession offers many different facets, he took advantage of numerous opportunities during his training to expand his knowledge of the diversity of viticulture in South Tyrol, New Zealand and also throughout Germany in order to gain valuable impressions and valuable experience. He worked in various wineries as a cellar master and in his free time built up his own dream and idea of his own winery in his still small vineyards. The enthusiasm and knowledge about his work in our vineyards literally bubbles out of him and leaves a smile on the face of everyone who comes into contact with him. You often hear that there are few people who love their work as much as he does. And that's probably how it is. The best place for him, the best way to slow down, is to stand between his rows in our vineyards and be close to nature.

We both crossed paths in 2011. Barbara, who had no idea about life on the Moselle and viticulture, thought the Moselle region was quite nice, but she wasn't interested in anything else. The centre of her life was in the Eifel and as an Eifel girl having a Moselan as a friend was a funny encounter. Even today, we often laugh about how her boss at the time reacted to her new love as follows: ‘Really, a real Wingertspoahl?’
"But a real one! With our own vines and the complete Moselle programme!"

As you can't relocate a real winegrower to the Eifel and you can't just move the Moselle with its steep slopes, we made Neef an der Mosel our home. In 2014, we decided to start our own business together and lay the foundations for Michael's great passion with his own winery. Barbara, who actually comes from an architectural background, became friends with life as a winemaker's wife and has since taken over the organisational and creative side of things that need to be kept running in the background. We started in 2014 with just 0.5 hectares. Today, 10 years later, we hold our first milestone in our hands and not only we but also our vineyards have grown to 7 hectares.

Conny and Rudi met 40 years ago and secretly got married. They soon decided to combine their parents' vineyards and founded a winery bearing both their names.

Thus begins the romantic story of our winery, which is located in the modest village of Bullay on the Terrassenmosel.

We, the family, cultivate four and a half hectares of vineyards in our home village and in Ediger-Eller downstream with a great deal of dedication and manual labour. Around 60 per cent of the land is planted with Riesling, and our vineyards include the Bullayer Graf-Beissel-Herrenberg, the Bullayer Brautrock and the Ellerer Pfirsichgarten.

Steep and steeply sloping sites are our daily routine and constantly present us with new challenges.

We vinify the grapes with just as much dedication. We give them the time they need and look forward to their development.

Our aim is to create wines that not only reflect our craft, but above all embody their origin and terroir.

The Amlinger-Schardt winery stands for the highest quality by tradition. They are at home in Bullay on the Mosel and have been growing wine for more than 100 years - in the best locations, on the best soils, with tradition and passion. Founded in 1878, the family business is now being continued in the fifth generation as Weinmanufaktur Christian Schardt. With a drive for perfection, their Weinmanufaktur Christian Schardt is sustainably successful, especially through their innovative wine concepts. In addition to the production and distribution of wines, the multi-generational business also includes a wine tavern and a vinotheque where you can taste each of their wines and products directly on site.

Where tradition meets innovation

The Zecherhof is not just a winery. It is the centrepiece of a family that discovered its love of viticulture at the end of the 19th century. Since then, our winery has grown and developed steadily.
From 1963, in addition to the marketing of cask wine, the marketing of bottled wine also found its way into our business. With the steady growth, it soon became clear that the cellar in the family home would soon be too small. So Bernd decided to take the bold step of building a new wine cellar in the ‘Auf der Zech’ location. It was the birth of the Zecherhof as we know it today.

In our winery, where we have been growing wine for generations, you will find quality wines from our own vineyards.
Our wines are all pure Moselle wines, which are vinified, cared for and marketed directly to our customers according to proven winemaking tradition.
Thanks to our professional care and years of experience, you are guaranteed to receive a first-class wine.

The beauty of winegrowing in our small family business is that all generations lend a hand. Whether big or small, young or old - everyone plays their part in ensuring that you can enjoy high quality wines. We are proud of this.
Our steep slopes in the Klosterkammer and Himmelreich vineyards in Sankt Aldegund cannot be worked by machine. A great deal of passion and dedication goes into every glass.
We were born into viticulture, and so the two winemakers' daughters Vanessa and Patricia have already had the honour of representing the wine from Sankt Aldegund as wine queens in the region.

The Stein family's connection to wine can be traced back to the 16th century. They produce individual and authentic wines in their slate vineyards, from simple country wines to complex "Striehween". They achieve fair wines, fair prices with natural, environmentally friendly cultivation and growing methods in the vineyard and cellar. This means careful manual work in all areas, which they value and pay fairly. Last but not least, fairness includes affordable prices, also for special wines.

The Kreuter winery has been cultivating their vineyard in Alf organically since 1990. Starting with 2 ha, they now cultivate 5.5 ha in the villages of Alf, Bullay and Neef. Grape varieties such as Riesling, Chardonnay, Blauer Spätburgunder are among their preferred choices, as these grape varieties lead to the best qualities in the steep slopes. A speciality is their White Elbling, which they refine into a very interesting Crémant sparkling wine in the cellar. By arrangement, they offer vineyard and cellar tours and of course wine tastings in their tasting room.