On January 28, 2012, the FINE wine magazine invited to the Buchholz top restaurant in Mainz to taste nine vintages of Riesling Großes Gewächs from the Westhofener Kirchspiel of the Keller, Wittmann and Groebe wineries.
The 45 hectare large, yet very homogeneous Kirchspiel opens up in the form of a large amphitheater to the southeast towards the Rhine. Thus, the vineyards, which reach up to an altitude of 150 meters, get sunshine early, although it is missing earlier in the evening. The location is protected from cold west winds, which is extremely beneficial to the microclimate, but nevertheless the Kirchspiel is rather one of the cooler top locations of the region. This is also noticeable in the wines, which show considerably less opulent fruit than the other classified sites of Westhofen. They present themselves rather taut and spicy. The wines get their distinctive minerality from the clay marl with limestone inclusions, limestone weathering loam as well as the subsoil of limestone, which makes up the soil of the Kirchspiel.