A German Wine Prince

In the heart of a viticultural landscape, a man returns to his ancestral land.
By Zac Steger
Photographs Courtesy Zac Steger

It’s not exactly a fairy tale, but there’s something slightly magical about a day that ends with a prince giving you an after-hours tour of his family castle.


Though his noble title is not official—Germany ended such things in 1919 following World War I —Professor Dr. Georg Prinz zur Lippe proudly carries on his ancestral lineage at the family winery. An estate not inherited, but slowly repurchased plot by plot following reunification to rebuild Saxony’s oldest and largest privately owned winery near Meissen.

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