Owner: Carolin Spanier - Gillot, Gabi und Roland Gillot Managing director: Roland Gillot, Carolin Spanier-Gillot Cellar master: Roland Gillot , Carolin Spanier-Gillot und H.O. Spanier
Cultivated area: 10.00 ha
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Membership:, Pro Riesling, Vinissima, Message in a Bottle
The estate is located in the town of Bodenheim (Nierstein area) in the Rheinhessen wine-growing region in Germany. In its present form, it came about by marriage in 1970. Both the Kühling and Gillot wineries could look back on a winemaking tradition of two centuries. It is owned by Roland and Carolin (it is she who is the trained oenologist) Gilot. Carolin, who has been responsible for winemaking since 2002, is the only female member of the „Message in a bottle“ wine producer’s association in Rheinhessen. She has been married to Hans-Oliver Spanier of the Battenfeld-Spanier estate since 2006. The vineyard area totals ten hectares, with holdings in the sites Burgweg (Bodenheim), Kreuz and Sackträger (Oppenheim), Ölberg and Pettental (Nierstein) and Rothenberg (Nackenheim). Grape varieties planted are Riesling (4,3 ha), Pinot Noir (0,9 ha), Pinot Gris (0,8 ha), Portugieser (0,8 ha), Chardonnay (0,5 ha) and Scheurebe (0,4 ha). Particular attention is paid to maintaining the fruit aromas, by treating the wine with great care from fermentation right through to bottling. The premium wines include the Grosses Gewächs/Grand Cru wines from the abovementioned top vineyard sites. At the International Wine Challenge 1996 in London, Kühling-Gillot was the only German wine estate to be awarded a gold medal, for its 1992 Oppenheim Sackträger Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese. The estate is a member of the VDP (Verband deutscher Prädikats- und Qualitäts-Weingüter – German quality estate producers association).
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