Pfalz

The Pfalz, nestled between the Haardt Mountains and the Rhine, is Germany’s second-largest wine-growing region—and arguably its most dynamic. With its sun-drenched vineyards, diverse soils, and a deep-rooted winemaking tradition, Pfalz produces wines of generosity and structure. Yet beneath its reputation for ripe, fruit-forward whites and supple reds lies a more refined story—one of precision, purity, and terroir transparency.

Nowhere is that story more clearly expressed than at Ökonomierat Rebholz, the region’s most uncompromising and visionary estate. For three generations, the Rebholz family has redefined what Pfalz wine can be: not broad and easygoing, but lean, mineral, and intellectually thrilling. Hansjörg Rebholz’s philosophy is one of minimal intervention—eschewing chaptalisation, deacidification, and malolactic fermentation to let vineyard and vintage speak with absolute clarity. His wines, fermented in stainless steel and bottled with minimal handling, are bone-dry, energetic, and built to age.

Across the region, Pfalz producers benefit from an extraordinary mosaic of soils—sandstone, basalt, loess, and limestone—which, in the right hands, yield wines of great site specificity. Riesling remains the noble backbone of the region, but there is increasing acclaim for its Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc), Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir), and a growing number of world-class Sekts.

Yet in a region rich with talent, Rebholz stands apart—an estate whose wines offer a radical, almost Burgundian clarity of site and structure. They are not easy wines, nor are they meant to be. They are profound, age-worthy, and exacting—essential for collectors seeking the very best of contemporary German wine.