The best wines of Zeeland
Discover the best wines of Zeeland as well as the best winemakers of Zeeland and estates of Zeeland to visit. Explore the popular grape varieties of Zeeland and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Top wines of Zeeland by region
Looking for a good wine of Zeeland among the top wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent wines of Zeeland. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be appropriate with these exceptional wines. Learn more about the region and the wines of Zeeland with technical and enological descriptions.
Great red wines of Zeeland
See the top 100 best red wines of ZeelandWant to buy a red wine of Zeeland cheap or sell a red wine of Zeeland 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.
Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Zeeland
Red wines from the region of Zeeland go well with generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .
The best vintages in red wine of Zeeland
- 2018With an average score of 3.30/5
The most used grape varieties in red wine of Zeeland
- Monarch
Discovering the wine region of Zeeland
The wine region of of Netherlands. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine T Biezenhof or the Domaine Elmare produce mainly wines white and red. The most planted grape varieties in the region of are Johanniter, Solaris and Pinot blanc, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. We currently count 2 estates and châteaux in the of , producing 5 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture.
The wines of go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish.
Great white wines of Zeeland
See the top 100 best white wines of ZeelandWant to buy a white wine of Zeeland cheap or sell a white wine of Zeeland 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.
Food and wine pairing with a white wine of Zeeland
White wines from the region of Zeeland go well with generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of oven-baked salmon mozzarella sandwiches or barbecued lobster.
The best vintages in white wine of Zeeland
- 2018With an average score of 3.30/5
The most used grape varieties in white wine of Zeeland
- Johanniter
- Solaris
- Pinot Blanc
Discover the grape variety: Solaris
Interspecific cross between merzling x Geisenheim 6493 (zarya severa x muscat ottonel) obtained in Germany in 1975 by Norbert Becker. It has the particularity of having only one gene for resistance to mildew and powdery mildew. It can be found in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, England, etc. In France, it is still little known.
News from the vineyard of Zeeland
English and Welsh wine sales soar thanks to surging direct-to-consumer channel
The latest survey from trade body WineGB shows that sales of English and Welsh wines have now increased by 69% between 2019 and 2021. The star performer is the direct-to-consumer sector, which is up by 265% over two years. It now represents 57% of all sales, up from just 36% in 2019. That means English and Welsh wine producers are increasingly cutting out the middlemen – supermarkets, specialist merchants, bars and restaurants – and selling directly to their devotees, either via their ecommerce ...
Walls: Tasting Hermitage 2001 20 years on
In 2001, George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd President of the United States. Meanwhile in the UK, Tony Blair led the Labour Party to its second landslide victory. A lot can change over the course of 20 years. According to many Rhône winemakers and wine collectors, this is how long a bottle of Hermitage should lay undisturbed until you open it. Is it really worth the wait? I recently tasted 11 Hermitage 2001s – seven red, two white, two sweet – to test the 20 year hypothesis and see how these ...
Chinese customs seize over 1,100 bottles of fine wine from Hong Kong
According to China’s General Administration of Customs, the seized goods consisted of more than 1,000 bottles of Penfolds from Australia and over 100 bottles of top-end Bordeaux wine, including first growth labels such as Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Margaux. The Chinese customs authorities discovered the cases of illegally imported bottles by checking the amount of wine declared on the offending company’s documents against the actual number of items being transported. The smuggled good ...