2024 Spiess Riesling Trocken

The Spiess family has been farming in Bechtheim since 1509. For most of those years the family’s estate grew produce and raised livestock, with wine only one of the many products it produced. The family embarked on fine winemaking only a generation ago, when Jürgen Spiess and his wife Ute specialized in just produce and grapes and eventually concentrated just on grapes. Yet the Spiess family have never lost sight of the lessons learned from five centuries of working the land: respect for family, nature and the power of hard work. Their estate dry riesling comes from south-facing Bechtheimer vineyards in Rheinhessen’s warm southern basin. Fermented with native yeast and aged in a combination of stainless steel and barrels, this is a great entrypoint into the Rheinhessen, with leaner, zestier fruit leading the way to its serious mineral core.