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Want to buy a red wine of Saale-Unstrut cheap or sell a red wine of Saale-Unstrut at the best price on the market? Find out which ones are popular and which ones to keep in your cellar for a few more years.
Red wines from the region of Saale-Unstrut go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of pasta with tuna and tomato, breaded veal cutlets or caramelized pork ribs.
On the nose the red wine of the region of Saale-Unstrut. often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit or microbio and sometimes also flavors of black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of the region of Saale-Unstrut. is a with a nice freshness.
Saale-Unstrut is the northernmost of Germany's 13 wine-growing regions. At 51 degrees northern latitude, it is one of the most northerly wine regions in the world. It takes its name from the two rivers on the banks of which the Vines of the region grow, and is composed of three non-contiguous Parts located mainly in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, with around 650 hectares (1600 acres) of Vineyards, often terraced, on South and south-west-facing slopes along the narrow river valleys. A smaller area of 20 hectares (50 acres) is located in the state of Thüringen and a block of just 7 hectares (17 acres) in Brandenburg.
Two towns within the region, Freyburg and Karsdorf, each have one vineyard which has been accorded Grosse Lage status.
Wine has been grown here for more than 1000 years. The Cistercian monks founded the Pforta Abbey in approximately 1100 AD and established the Pfortenser Köppelberg vineyard, which still exists today. The wine industry in this part of Germany had a Hard time during the post-war communist era, but since reunification quality has improved, and the area under vine has expanded slightly.
Saale-Unstrut enjoys plenty of sunshine and has one of the lowest rainfalls of any German wine-growing region. Soils are mainly sedimentary with shell, limestone and sandstone predominating. Despite these favorable conditions, the region's northern Climate is uncompromising, and even when yields are kept low, Spätlese or Auslese wines can only be produced during the warmest of years.
Müller-Thurgau is the most widely planted variety in the Saale-Unstrut region, accounting for around 20 percent of the total vineyard area.
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White wines from the region of Saale-Unstrut go well with generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, vegetarian or goat cheese such as recipes of magic marinade (for shrimps, scallops, fish...), magic cake cheese quiche or quiche with leek fondue and goat cheese.
On the nose the white wine of the region of Saale-Unstrut. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, tropical fruit or earth. In the mouth the white wine of the region of Saale-Unstrut. is a with a nice freshness.
Intraspecific crossing between the saint laurent and the limberger realized in 1922 and in Austria by Fritz Zweigelt (1888/1964) who named it rotburger. Very well known in Austria, it can be found in most Eastern countries, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the United States, etc. In France, it is not very well known and yet this variety has interesting qualities when vinified as a single variety for both red and rosé wines. - Synonyms: rotburger, klosterneuburger, zweigelt blau, blauer-zweigelt in Germany, zweigeltrebe in Austria, Great Britain and the Czech Republic, blauer zwelgetrabe in Hungary, etc. (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here !)
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Sparkling wines from the region of Saale-Unstrut go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of delicious marinated pork chops, tagliatelle with fresh salmon or royal couscous (lamb, chicken, merguez).
On the nose the sparkling wine of the region of Saale-Unstrut. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or microbio and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, tropical fruit or vegetal.
After five to eight days of alcoholic fermentation, it is possible to prolong the maceration in order to extract the maximum amount of matter from the marc. The wines obtained in this way are rich and full-bodied, and in principle are intended for laying down.
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Pink wines from the region of Saale-Unstrut go well with generally quite well with dishes of vegetarian such as recipes of mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche.
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Sweet wines from the region of Saale-Unstrut go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of stuffed tomatoes with thermomix, catalan zarzuela or salmon steak on a bed of leeks.
In the major wine regions, the négociant does not simply buy and resell the wines but, from very young wines, carries out all the maturing operations until bottling.
