The Winery Spanier-Gillot of Rheinhessen

Winery Spanier-Gillot - Kalkglimmer Riesling
The winery offers 4 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 445 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Spanier-Gillot is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 4 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Spanier-Gillot wines

Looking for the best Winery Spanier-Gillot wines in Rheinhessen among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Spanier-Gillot wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Spanier-Gillot wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Spanier-Gillot

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Spanier-Gillot

How Winery Spanier-Gillot wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of quiche with mixed vegetables, scallops with cream or navarin of lamb.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Spanier-Gillot

On the nose the white wine of Winery Spanier-Gillot. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Spanier-Gillot. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Spanier-Gillot

  • 2016With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.95/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Spanier-Gillot.

  • Riesling

Discovering the wine region of Rheinhessen

Rheinhessen is Germany's largest region for producing the quality wines of the Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete (QbA) and Prädikatswein designations, with roughly 26,500 hectares (65,000 acres) of Vineyard">Vineyards as of 2014. Many of its most significant viticultural areas are favorably influenced by the Rhine river, which runs aLong its North and eastern borders. The Rhine, along with the Nahe river to the west and the Haardt mountains to its South, form a natural border. Rheinhessen covers an area south of Rheingau, north of Pfalz and east of Nahe, and is located within the Rhineland-Palatinate federal state.

The region has been cultivating Grapes for wine production at least since ancient Roman occupation. It's also the home to the oldest surviving records of a German vineyard. Named Glöck, the vineyard was included in a deed for a church and vineyards gifted by Carloman – a duke of the Franks of the Carolingian family and the uncle of the first Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne – to the diocese of Würzburg in 742. Within a century, dozens of villages were cultivating grapes throughout Rheinhessen.

An early documentation of Riesling as a distinct grape variety, identified as Rüssling, was also found in records from the city Worms dating back to 1402. The Size of the region, and its location on the Rhine, has given it a significant role in Germany's wine industry history. Its largest city, Mainz, has been an unofficial Center for wine trade, being home to several national wine organizations including the German Wine Institute and the Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates (Verband Deutscher Prädikats-und Qualitätsweingüter e. V.

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News about Winery Spanier-Gillot and wines from the region

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Sebastian Payne MW retires from The Wine Society

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The word of the wine: Austere

A full-bodied, closed wine whose qualities are noticeable, but which does not express its full potential.