The "Weingut von Racknitz" is located in the municipality of Odernheim in the German wine-growing region of Nahe. It is the former estate of the Disibodenberg monastery. The winery and monastery ruins have been owned by the von Racknitz family for more than 200 years, with the ruins being transferred to the Scivias Foundation in 1989. Luise von Racknitz-Adams and Matthias Adams have owned the winery since 2003. The vineyards cover 15 hectares of vines in the single vineyard sites Rotenfels (Traisen), Königsfels (Schloßböckelheim), as well as Hermannshöhle, Kertz, Klamm, Kieselberg (Oberhausen) and Rosenheck (Niederhausen). They are planted with Riesling vines up to 60 years old. The work is carried out according to organic viticulture guidelines. A special feature is the consistently site- and origin-specific vinification, which emphasises the Nahe's unique heterogeneity of soils. Fermentation is always carried out with the vineyard's own yeasts (no pure yeasts). The wines are stored in stainless steel tanks on the fine lees until bottling, if possible.
In November 2008, Luise von Racknitz-Adams found overgrown old vines of the historic Weißer Orléans grape variety in an uncultivated part of single vineyard Kloster Disibodenberg. For grape variety researcher Andreas Jung, who examined the unusual find, these old vines are the oldest in Germany and probably even in the world. He assumes that they are at least 500 years old and date back to the time (1559) when the monastery and the associated viticulture on the historic terraces were abandoned. Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) entered this monastery as a very young novice in 1112. The wild five Orléans vines were used to grow offshoots, with which a vineyard was to be replanted.
