Sybille’s family have been living in Lieser, in the Mosel, for many generations and have always been involved in aspects of the wine business, from producing barrels to looking after wines for other local growers. They even acted as wine merchants. Sybille left home to study and became a wine merchant herself, opening a wine shop to help fund her studies. She began by selling her family’s wine, and as she began to buy other people’s wines she noticed that the quality of the region was sadly slipping. Taking things into her own hands, Sybille returned to the Mosel to begin producing wines on her family’s estate.

Sybille knew that to be different, she had to adopt different practices in the vineyards than those of her neighbours and produce more than just the saccrine sweet German wines that the market had been flooded with.