Weingut Joachim Lehmann

Weingut Joachim Lehmann is a family winery in Diesbar-Seußlitz near Meißen, in Saxony (Sachsen), one of Germany's smallest and easternmost wine regions along the Elbe Valley. Founded in 1931 when the family acquired the property and revived phylloxera-damaged vineyards, the estate became the first privately run winery in Saxony after German reunification and was the first to be awarded the German Wine Seal. Today the estate is run in its third generation by Sebastian Lehmann, a trained vintner who took over from his father Joachim in 2019 after twelve years working alongside him; the winery still carries Joachim's name. Sebastian's wife Maria Lehmann, the 30th Saxon Wine Queen (2017), leads marketing and hospitality and also bottles her own label, Maria Lehmann Weine. The estate farms roughly 5 hectares (plus grapes bought from about 2 more) on the noted Seußlitzer Heinrichsburg and Seußlitzer Schloßweinberg sites, producing around 45,000 bottles a year. Classic Saxon varieties such as Goldriesling sit alongside Müller-Thurgau, Weißburgunder, Grauburgunder, Sauvignon Blanc, Scheurebe, Muskateller, Zweigelt, Dornfelder and Spätburgunder. The estate is especially known for Schieler, a Saxon specialty made by co-pressing red and white grapes into a rosé-style wine, and leans toward fruitier, slightly off-dry styles rather than Saxony's typical bone-dry norm.