Weingut Sybille Kuntz Riesling Kabinett Trocken 2022

Sybille?s family have been living in Lieser, in the Mosel, for many generations and have always been involved in aspects of the wine business, from producing barrels to looking after wines for other local growers.  They even acted as wine merchants.  Sybille left home to study and became a wine merchant herself, opening a wine shop to help fund her studies.  She began by selling her family's wine, and as she began to buy other people?s wines she noticed that the quality of the region was sadly slipping.  

Taking things into her own hands, Sybille returned to the Mosel to begin producing wines on her family's estate.  To help increase the quality she knew she had to produce a dry wine, and not the sweetish style of the 1980s.  She also knew the vineyards must be treated without chemicals, and so began the long process of converting to 'Bio Organic', finally being certified in 2003.

The grapes are collected during harvest in small crates to ensure that they reach the cellar undamaged.  In the closed tank press skin maceration lasts 1?2 hours to enhance natural aroma extraction.  After an average 12-hour sedimentation period the juice is moved into the fermenter.  

Vinification takes place in stainless-steel tanks at temperatures of between 16 to 18 degrees C.  Initially, fermentation is temperature-controlled; the entire fermentation process covers a period of 6 to 8 weeks.  The wine is kept on its fine lees until spring, when filtration takes place. Bottling is done in late spring of the year following harvest.