Sybille Kuntz And Her Wines
The wine trade is all about celebrating excellent winemakers but what about strong influential female winemakers? Sybille Kuntz is just that. She is one of the many excellent winemakers/vineyard owners in the world, leading the charge in a predominantly male industry. In Germany however, she is still one of the very few female winemakers in the Mosel. Because of this, Sybille had to stick to her guns and forge her own path when she took over her father’s vineyard in the late 1980s. She had to be bold and more ambitious than all of her competitors. She has always been very much ‘hands on’ and very good vineyard management has been the key to her success. Modern vine training was implemented and canopy management was integral in extracting as much flavour from her grapes.
One of the first things she did was to start producing dry Rieslings, when the market was greedy for sweet wines and in 1990, she started using practising organic viticulture. In 2011, Sybille applied for certification. She then went on to use biodynamic methods (eventually receiving certification in 2016) and continued to make her interpretation of the best dry Mosel wines. Judging by Sybille’s accompishments now, we would say that her wines are not only modern, fresh and clean but we should also acknowledge the simple label designs on the bottles. This was a marked leap away from the stuffy Riesling labels that can quite rightly, sometimes bamboozle buyers, trying to negotiate the German quality control wine classification.
Trocken
Sybille Kuntz Riesling Qualitätswein Trocken 2019
Sybille Kuntz Qualitätswein Trocken is a delicious dry Mosel Riesling which has an action packed palate of crisp green fruit, lime and apricot. It’s fresh as a daisy and a delight to drink.
Kabinett
Sybille Kuntz Riesling Kabinett Trocken 2016
Sybille Kuntz Riesling Kabinett is a brilliant example of Mosel Kabinett. The fruit is tangy and fresh with apple and stone fruit character but this wine is all about minerality which shines through with every mouthful.
Spatlese
Sybille Kuntz Riesling Spatlese Trocken 2015
Sybille Kuntz’s Riesling Spatlese is a complex and brilliant wine and an amazing advert for Mosel Riesling. The wine has fantastic texture and richness on the palate which is fleshy and intensely flavoured with green fruits, nectarine and honeysuckle. It is elegant, sophisticated and a joy to drink.
Orange
Sybille Kuntz Orange Riesling 2019
Sybille Kuntz produced her first Orange Riesling in 2017. It’s a unique style of wine with freshness and high acidity along with lovely spice notes behind the grapefruit and orange pith fruit. Orange wine is a type of white wine made by leaving the grape skins and seeds in contact with the juice, creating a deep orange-hued finished product.
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