Winemaker

Jochen Bug

Discipline: Winemaker
Venue: Schloss Vollrads · Winery

Portrait of Jochen Bug

i. Biography

Coming Up

Cellar work sits at the center of Jochen Bug’s career: as kellermeister at Erbacher Winzergenossenschaft from 2007, he was in the daily discipline that gives a vintage its final shape. That technical foundation carried into Schloss Vollrads (2017–2026), where the work of the cellar became a sustained exercise in continuity inside a house with a long identity. In the Rheingau, where precision and history are often asked to share the same glass, Bug’s path shows a steady widening of responsibility without losing contact with the work itself. Since 2026, Jochen Bug has served as Leitung Kellerwirtschaft of Hessische Staatsweingüter GmbH Kloster Eberbach, bringing that accumulated cellar discipline into a leading role at one of the region’s most significant estates. The title marks a shift from hands-on cellar management to coordinating the rhythms of the cellar at a broader level. At Kloster Eberbach, that kind of role depends on technical assurance, continuity, and a close read of place. Bug’s career has been built that way: through years spent close to the cellar, and through responsibility that has expanded by degree rather than by declaration.

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Where They Are Now

Cellar management at Kloster Eberbach in Eltville places Jochen Bug in direct relation to the Rheingau’s working identity. The region is not presented as scenery but as the ground of the job itself. The line links place, labor, and institutional weight in a single statement. It reads as a practical recognition that the estate belongs to a larger regional memory, and that cellar work there carries both technical and cultural responsibility.

Career - Leitung Kellerwirtschaft — Hessische Staatsweingüter GmbH Kloster Eberbach (2026–present) - Kellermeister — Erbacher Winzergenossenschaft (from 2007) - Kellermeister — Schloss Vollrads (2017–2026)

Honors

No awards are cited for Jochen Bug.

FAQ What is Jochen Bug's current role? As of 2026, Jochen Bug is Cellar Management Head. Where did Jochen Bug work before? Jochen Bug's earlier career included Erbacher Winzergenossenschaft and Schloss Vollrads. What is Jochen Bug known for? Riesling.