Winery — 2026
Weingut Hans Winter: photos from Heidelberg-Rohrbach
At Weingut Hans Winter in Heidelberg-Rohrbach I photographed the tasting room, the cellars and the people behind it all. Upstairs warm wood and wine bottles, downstairs vaults, barrels and stainless steel. A series about a place where wine is made and tasted together.
Photography at the winery in Heidelberg-Rohrbach
Weingut Hans Winter is on Weingasse, in the old village centre of Rohrbach. I took photos there in October 2026, from the entrance through the tasting room and down into the cellars. The series brings together the rooms, the people who work there and the little things that are easy to miss as you walk past.
With photos like these, what matters to me is helping people understand a business. What does it look like, who is behind it, and what does a visit feel like? Rooms and portraits together show that better than either of them on its own.
Warm wood, stone and stainless steel
In the tasting room, wooden shelves, bottles and the lit stone wall give the pictures their colours. Downstairs the mood changes: the wooden barrels sit under a low vault, and in the tank cellar light and pipes are mirrored in the stainless steel.
For the rooms I used a small 14mm wide-angle. It shows the paths between the barrels and tanks while still leaving space for the vault above. With the 85mm I move in close on the details, a display, a hatch or a label. That way wide views and close-ups take turns without the series losing its thread.
People are part of it
The portraits in the cellar and at the entrance are interspersed with the interior shots. I leave the surroundings in the frame because they reveal something about the people. The dog next to the barrel is just as much a part of the visit as the bottles of wine on the shelf.
At the end the view heads back outside, into the narrow Weingasse with its green canopy of leaves. That gives the place its frame: from everyday life on the street to what lies behind the cellar door.
Photos and website from the same person
The photos were taken for the winery’s new website, which I also designed and built; it has been live since November 2026. You can read about how it came about and how the winery’s own vineyards ended up on a cadastral map from 1880 under Web design.
- Location
- Heidelberg-Rohrbach
- Year
- 2026
- Genre
- Winery
