Wines made from Pinotin grapes of Ahr
Discover the best wines made with Pinotin as a single variety or as a blend of Ahr.
Swiss interspecific cross obtained in 1991 by Valentin Blattner. The parents would be pinot noir and an interspecific variety resistant to diseases and, for others, it would be a cross between cabernet-sauvignon and ((sylvaner x riesling) x (12 417 Seyve-Villard x 7053 Seibel)) see graph www.winogrona.org. No resistance gene could be identified for either mildew or powdery mildew. It can be found in Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Germany, ... still little known in France.
Ahr is one of Germany’s least-known and Northernmost wine regions, known for its Pinot Noir reds. It Lies immediately north of the Mosel, and follows the Ahr River in the Final stages of its journey towards its confluence with the Rhein. One might expect a wine region this far north (50°N) to specialize in white wines – like almost every other cool-Climate wine region. After all, neighboring Mosel and Mittelrhein both clearly favor white wines (around 85 percent).