Knebel is located in Winningen in the lower Mosel, or the “Terassen” Mosel, where the vineyards are among the steepest and most vertigo-inducing. Since 2009, Matthias Knebel, the son of Beate and Reinhard Knebel, has been in charge of the winemaking for the dry, off-dry and fruity wines. His mother Beate makes the noble sweet wines (and very well, we might add). Their main vineyard holdings are in Uhlen and Röttgen with smaller parcels in Hamm and Brückstück. Here the vineyards are practically all gray, blue and sometimes red slate with little soil.
The vineyards are minimally treated with sulfur and copper only.

The grapes are passed by gravity into the pneumatic press often having a brief maceration on skins, no sulfur is used. These wines are particularly graceful and easy on the palate; very different from the Middle Mosel style, the Knebel wines offer a distinctive richness and full-blooded quality from extended skin contact and generous exposure to oxygen during vinification.