In the light-flooded vinotheque, which is located in the new building of Christine Pröstler's very young winery on the outskirts of Retzbach, one can thoroughly enjoy that special something which, according to the winemaker's firm conviction, should distinguish special wines from the mainstream.
Pröstler grows mainly Silvaner, Riesling and Pinot Blanc or Pinot Gris vines for her three product lines, estate wines, Retzbach wines and Benediktusberg wines. From the Beneditkusberg she makes a Pinot Noir and in the line of Retzbach wines she offers a Domina wine, aged for 24 months in barrique, with an aroma of ripe blackberries, sweet cherries and delicate wood nuances. The urbane enologist founded her winery in 2008, then still in the center of town, where her father had been making wine as a sideline for many years. In 2013 followed the completion of the ultra-modern winery on the outskirts of Retzbach. The clear and stringent architecture of concrete, steel and glass seems like a corporate identity built on Pröstler's quality claim for top wines. Quality is created in the vineyard: Pröstler is convinced of the power of the shell limestone soils. However, the individual character of a wine only develops in the cellar and in the care of a sensitive winemaker. Pröstler wants to create individual, distinctive wines. With the single-vineyard wines from the Benediktusberg, she has been excelling for a few years now. Of course, the winemaker explains, you can't leave anything to chance - neither in the vineyard nor in the cellar. And she has also followed a clear line in the architecture and marketing of her wines from the very beginning. The whole is more than the sum of its parts, is how Pröstler sums up her idea of good architecture and coherent design. Her initials cP. printed in gold and silver may point to evidence of this.
