Zellerweg am Schwarzen, Herrgott, Grosses Gewächs
Battenfeld-Spanier

Zellerweg am Schwarzen, Herrgott, Grosses Gewächs


Destination

vintage


portfolio

Portfolio
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2016
75cl
DP
£53.21

2016
6x75cl
DP
£319.22

2017
75cl
DP
£53.21

2017
6x75cl
DP
£319.22

2018
6x75cl
DP
£319.22

2019
6x75cl
DP
£319.22

2020
6x75cl
DP
£319.22

2020
6x75cl
DP
£319.22

2021
6x75cl
DP
£319.22

2022
6x75cl
DP
£421.22


Battenfeld-Spanier, Zellerweg am Schwarzen, Herrgott, Grosses Gewächs

2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022

Tasting Notes


Maturity:
Keep/Drink

ABV:
12.5 %

Notes

Another chalk dominated vineyard, full of spicy citrus notes and a commanding sense of extract that holds firm the palate of sweet peach, warmed citrus and pomelo, moving into savoury, earthy spicy notes towards the finish. Complex, commanding and powerful.


specifications

country:
Germany


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Allergen Information:
This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.


Battenfeld-Spanier

Battenfeld-Spanier

Kuhling-Gillot and Battenfeld-Spanier represent two estates brought together by marriage but produced by one winemaking team in one cellar. Their focus is on producing great dry wines from top Rheinhessen vineyards with a minimum of intervention. In doing so they favour the savoury and the mineral over the overtly fruity. The Kuhling-Gillot vineyards are located in the Northern Rheinhessen, close to the river, in the red slate heartland between the villages of Nackenheim and Oppenheim. The estate’s history dates back over 200 years, though under different names: the family’s female side has run the estate for generation. Battenfeld-Spanier is a younger affair, set up by the ambitious Oliver Spanier in 1993. His vineyards are a further south, centred around the villages of Hohen-Sulzen, Nieder-Florsheim and Molsheim. Both estates are run to certified Biodynamic principals and without the use of fertilizer or pesticides. After hand harvesting, the grapes are kept on their skins for between 8 hours and three days depending on the vintage, before being fermented spontaneously. Vinification for all dry wines is done in 1200 litre wooden barrels, with constant topping up to minimize oxidation, the wines staying on their fine lees until the day of bottling. Of the two estates, the Kuhling-Gillot wines tend to be planted on slate soils while the Battenfeld-Spanier wines are all on limestone. The differences between the two soils types are rendered beautifully clearly because of the identical winemaking; the wines from limestone soils quiver with energy and cool minerality, those from slate tending more to tranquility and warm, fluid minerality. These two estates, run by the young, enthusiastic husband and wife team of Olivier and Carolin, are making some of Germany's most exciting dry wines and we are delighted to be bringing them into the UK for the first time.

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