Located in the picturesque Selz Valley of Rheinhessen just southwest of Mainz, Weingut Eppelmann is a dynamic family-run winery with roots going back 6 generations. Today it is firmly one of the brightest of rising stars in Germany’s largest and most diverse region. From their home village of Stadecken-Elsheim, just southwest of Mainz, the Eppelmann family crafts precise, mineral-driven wines from some of Rheinhessen’s most expressive limestone sites. 

The 19 hectares under vine at Weingut Eppelmann are spread across the sun-soaked hillsides of the lower Selz Valley, a prized subzone of Rheinhessen renowned for its limestone and loess-rich soils. Located in a 61km tributary of the Rhine river, as the Selz descends from the Donnersberg hills with a dramatic 240m drop in elevation down to its confluence near Frei-Weinheim, Stadecken-Elsheim is the cooler side of Rheinhessen, where the folding of the rock layers along the curve of the river yields multi-faceted and intriguing micro-climates. Eppelmann farm plots on both sides of the Selz valley, the Rive Gauche and Rive Droite, and key vineyard sites include Elsheimer Blume, Bockstein, and parcels in the Ingelheimer Horn, each offering unique soil compositions—from chalky marl and clay-limestone to loamy sands. The terroir provides excellent drainage, deep root penetration, and naturally low yields, supporting wines of striking freshness, salinity, and aromatic clarity.