Top 100 wines of Zürich
Discover the top 100 best wines of Zürich as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the wines that are popular of Zürich and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Zürich
Largest German-speaking wine canton of Switzerland, 620 ha around the lake. Star Pinot Noir (Blauburgunder): fine, fresh reds with notes of cherry, raspberry, undergrowth and sweet spices, silky tannins and a delicate style. Also light, floral Müller-Thurgau and precise Chardonnay. A unique speciality: Räuschling, a rare native white almost exclusive to the canton ("vine of the lake"), lively with citrus, white flowers and taut minerality.
Climate tempered by the lake.
Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir
Elegant reds, light in colour with silky tannins, showing strawberry, cherry and raspberry aromas, evolving to forest floor, mushroom and spice with age. Fresh acidity, delicate finish. Star of the Côte d'Or (Romanée-Conti, Chambertin, Volnay), pillar of Champagne (Blanc de Noirs) and signature of Oregon, Central Otago and Sonoma Coast. An early-ripening Burgundian variety, one of the world's greatest.
Food and wine pairing with a wine of Zürich
wines from the region of Zürich go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of penne à la toscane, salmon steaks with lemon and shallot sauce or quiche with leeks and fresh salmon from flo.
Organoleptic analysis of wine of Zürich
On the nose in the region of Zürich often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or spices and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, oak or red fruit. In the mouth in the region of Zürich is a with a nice freshness.
