Sybille Kuntz
For centuries, passing down through many generations, the Kuntz family has been living in Lieser, a town one bend upriver from Bernkastel in the heart of the Mosel valley, tending the Lieser vineyards and making wine there. Yet Sybille’s ancestors were also deeply involved in other vital activities of the wine business. They made casks and barrels, oversaw the filtration and bottling of wines for other wine growers, and they also acted as wine merchants.
Sybille spent a good deal of her childhood working in the vineyards. A little too much time perhaps...?
In 1981, to help finance her studies in business administration, she opened a wine shop. she started by selling wines from her parents’ vineyards, but soon she had to buy Riesling wines from other producers to meet the growing demand. But that didn’t quite solve the problem, either. Her standards for what qualified as a good wine had either become too high or the quality of the wine, she was buying had much diminished. Sybille had a real problem. So, she took heart and said to herself: “I can do better than this!”
With husband Markus Kuntz-Riedlin, a “Geisenheim” Enologist from the Markgräflerland/Baden with the same ambition and fascination for vines and wine, an additional reinforcement came to the SYBILLE KUNTZ Weingut. That was the "go!" for the further development of the SYBILLE KUNTZ Mosel-Riesling.
For centuries, passing down through many generations, the Kuntz family has been living in Lieser, a town one bend upriver from Bernkastel in the heart of the Mosel valley, tending the Lieser vineyards and making wine there. Yet Sybille’s ancestors were also deeply involved in other vital activities of the wine business. They made casks and barrels, oversaw the filtration and bottling of wines for other wine growers, and they also acted as wine merchants.
Sybille spent a good deal of my childhood working in the vineyards. A little too much time perhaps...?
