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The winery is located in the municipality of Heimersheim in the German wine-growing region of Ahr. The Nelles family has been growing wine for over 500 years. The year 1479N on the labels refers to the documentary mention of Peter Nelis as the tenant of a "wyngartz an der buysch portzen".
The current owner, Thomas Nelles, completed an apprenticeship as a winemaker with Julius Wasem in Ingelheim and also worked for Adeneuer before studying viticulture and fruit growing in Weinsberg. He then took over his father's winery in the early 1970s. A short time later, the manor house, which was only built in 1950, had to make way for a road. When the Heimersheim co-operative merged with Ahr Winzer eG in 1976 and gave up its business premises in Heimersheim, Nelles had the building demolished apart from the hotel and rebuilt the business on the old cellar.
The vineyards cover 7 hectares of vines in the single vineyard sites Burggarten and Landskrone (Heimersheim), as well as Schieferlay and Sonnenberg (Bad Neuenahr). Around 75% of the vineyards are planted with Pinot Noir, as well as Riesling, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, Frühburgunder and Domina.
The best red wines are bottled without filtration wherever possible. There is also no fining. The Pinot Noirs are marketed in an in-house hierarchy from "Classic" to the flagship "B52". The winery is a member of the VDP and the Familiengüter-Vereinigung die Güter.