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Assmannshäuser Höllenberg

See under Höllenberg.

single vineyard in the municipality of Assmannshausen (district of Rüdesheim) in the German wine-growing region of Rheingau. The name is not derived from the place of horror, but from the Old High German "Helda" for slag heap or steep slope. There is documentary evidence that the Pinot Noir variety has been cultivated here since at least 1470. In 1814, on the occasion of his trip to the Rhine, the wine connoisseur and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

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