Alongside Altenberg, Kapellenberg, Kirchberg, Klosterberg, Rosenberg and Sonnenberg, this is one of the most common single-vineyard names in Germany. There are also the similarly named single vineyard sites Herrnberg, Herrenberger and Maximiner Herrenberg. Herrenberg is included in several other single vineyard names, for example Deutschherrenberg, Domherrenberg, Graf Beyßel Herrenberg and Kirchherrenberg. The name is usually derived from a former manorial estate. It occurs a total of 44 times in 9 of the 13 German wine-growing regions.
The south-east to south-west facing vineyards at 220 to 300 metres above sea level with 15 to 60% slopes cover 15.5 hectares of vineyards on stony, heavily weathered clay-slate soil. Below this is the single vineyard Treppchen vineyard. The Riesling variety is mainly cultivated here. The Berres, Dr Hermann, Lotz Klaus, Roth Andreas, S. A. Prüm and St. Anna wineries, for example, have shares in the site.
The west to south-west facing vineyards at 170 to 190 metres above sea level with slopes of 10 to 30% cover 46 hectares of vines. The soils consist mainly of shell limestone, interspersed with mottled sandstone and loess loam. The main white wine varieties grown here are Riesling, Silvaner and...
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