Immich-Batterieberg’s history is long and noble. The Estate was first mentioned in 908 AD by Ludwig IV, the last East Frankish Carolingian king, in a deed that confirmed its transfer to the church. The Immich family, whose own history on the Mosel spans from 1425 through 1989, was especially crucial to the development of the estate. Between 1841 and 1845, Carl August Immich repeatedly detonated dynamite in the Enkirch hillside in order to form the monopole Batterieberg (demolition hill). The famous label depicts a cannon blast with the name of the site. Batterieberg is a steep slate slope and ranked in the top tier in the Prussian Vineyard Classification of 1868 until today.

The new ownership and the arrival of cellar master & director Gernot Kollmann in 2009 offers the chance for this once great estate, famed for its long-lived, dry Rieslings and for its Jugendstil label, to reclaim its place among the greatest producers of the region. The vineyards are farmed without the use of herbicides and pesticides. Just as important as the inherent quality of the vineyards is the available grape material. The estate’s 3 hectares (7.4 acres) include a very large portion of old, ungrafted vines, which, because of their genetic diversity and their naturally low yields, make possible the highly differentiated, deep, and site-typical Rieslings that are Gernot Kollmann’s intended hallmark. Gernot’s orientation is towards dry Riesling, a style long well-cultivated here, even when the rest of the area was committed to sweeter wines. At its core, the house style is intended to be a very pure, unadorned, and rather powerful style of Riesling, with ripe, moderate acidity and with the pronounced structure intended for a long aging potential. The wines are raised without a heavy hand, primarily in used 228-liter Burgundian casks and are left for a long time on their lees. Gernot does not use cultured yeast, no enzymes, no protein stabilizers, and no clarifying agents, nor does he chaptalize, concentrate, or de-acidify. The results are firmly in the tradition of natural wines that—until the 1971 reform of the German wine law—was indicated on the bottle by the phrase naturrein.