Position and Extent
The clearest description comes from Weingütchen Schieferkaul in Alf, which locates the Herrenberg by its two neighbours. The Kapellenberg is the cut-bank slope rising directly above the old village centre, facing southeast, named for the Alfer Bergkapelle whose terrace looks downriver toward Bullay and the Prinzenkopf. The Burggraf climbs above the Alfbachtal under Burg Arras. The Herrenberg lies on the ground between the two, faces south, and sits on ordinary Mosel slate. The centre of our polygon falls near Höllenthal, the hamlet up the side valley, which places the site well back from the river front rather than on it.
The Grosslage is Grafschaft, in the Bereich Burg Cochem. No VDP classification attaches; the VDP register lists nothing at Alf.
Our einzellagen layer delimits 11.76 hectares. The planted figure is far smaller and worth stating plainly, because it defines what the site now is. The Landwirtschaftskammer register for the 2024 harvest records 1.2 hectares of vines under the Alfer Herrenberg name. Its neighbours are no larger: the Hölle carries 1.8 hectares, the Burggraf and the Kapellenberg each under one hectare, and the Katzenkopf is withheld from publication as the sole holding of a single business. Alf is a village whose delimited vineyard vastly exceeds its worked vineyard, and the Herrenberg is the clearest instance of it.
Who Works It
Schieferkaul, a deliberately small operation, divides its Rieslings by site: the Herrenberg supplies the dry wine, the Burggraf the feinherb, and the Kapellenberg, trained on single stakes, the fruit-sweet bottling. That allocation is the most substantial statement anyone publishes about the site's character, and it is a useful one. Of Alf's three worked slopes, the south-facing Herrenberg is the one its grower sends into the dry style.
Alf's other producers include Uwe Kreuter, working organically, St. Remigius, which markets itself on steep-slope viticulture, Weinhaus Endries, Weingarage Jürgen Menten and Stein Weine, the Alf and Bullay operation whose slate holdings include the Alfer Hölle. Cooperative winemaking has been part of the village since 1903.