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Spiess
Summary
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 specialised in just produce and grapes and, eventually concentrated just on grapes. Yet the Spiess-family have never lost sight of the lessons learnt from five centuries of working the land: respect for family, nature and the power of hard work.
The Spiess family proudly cultivates 32 ha of south-facing Bechtheimer vineyards in Rheinhessen’s warm southern basin, and obtained Fair&Green certification in October 2014.. Green, lush-rolling hills and fertile loess-lehm soil over a bedrock of limestone collects warmth, leading to a “kinder, gentler” wine. The estate is proud to cultivate sites such as Hasensprung, Geyersberg, Rosengarten, Stein und Heiligkreuz, where the Riesling and Pinot varieties can mature into lush, elegant, and long-lived wines.
