The best wines of Bern

Discover the best wines of Bern as well as the best winemakers of Bern and estates of Bern to visit. Explore the popular grape varieties of Bern and the best vintages to taste in this region.

Top wines of Bern by region

Looking for a good wine of Bern among the top wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent wines of Bern. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be appropriate with these exceptional wines. Learn more about the region and the wines of Bern with technical and enological descriptions.

Great red wines of Bern

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Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Bern

Red wines from the region of Bern go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of shoulder of suckling lamb confit with herbs, lisbon veal sauté or roast deer my grandmother's way.

Organoleptic analysis of red wine of Bern

On the nose the red wine of the region of Bern. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, earth. In the mouth the red wine of the region of Bern. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in red wine of Bern

  • 2017With an average score of 3.89/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.88/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.79/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.58/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.55/5

The most used grape varieties in red wine of Bern

  • Blauburgunder
  • Cabernet Jura
  • Pinot Noir
  • Cabernet Dorsa
  • Gamaret
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Bern

The wine region of Bern of Switzerland. Wineries and vineyards like the Domaine Rebbau Spiez - Spiezer Alpine Weinkultur or the Domaine Keller Am See produce mainly wines white, red and pink. The most planted grape varieties in the region of Bern are Pinot noir, Chasselas and Riesling, they are then used in wines in blends or as a single variety. On the nose of Bern often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, earth.

In the mouth of Bern is a with a nice freshness. We currently count 20 estates and châteaux in the of Bern, producing 69 different wines in conventional, organic and biodynamic agriculture. The wines of Bern go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison).

Great white wines of Bern

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Food and wine pairing with a white wine of Bern

White wines from the region of Bern go well with generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of traditional welsh dark beer, tuna and goat cheese pie or chicken fajitas.

Organoleptic analysis of white wine of Bern

In the mouth the white wine of the region of Bern. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in white wine of Bern

  • 2014With an average score of 4.06/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.94/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.77/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.73/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5

The most used grape varieties in white wine of Bern

  • Riesling
  • Sylvaner
  • Pinot Noir
  • Chasselas
  • Cabernet Dorsa
  • Sauvignon Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Diolinoir

Intraspecific cross between robin noir and pinot noir obtained in 1970 by André Jacquinet of the Swiss Federal Research Station Agroscope Changins-Wadenswil (Switzerland).

Great sparkling wines of Bern

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Food and wine pairing with a sparkling wine of Bern

Sparkling wines from the region of Bern go well with generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The most used grape varieties in sparkling wine of Bern

  • Blauburgunder

The word of the wine: Varietal wine

Name given to the local wine (IGP), produced from a single grape variety that gives the wine its characteristics of structure and aroma. The Languedoc is the leading producer of this type of wine, from most of the major French grape varieties.

Great pink wines of Bern

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Food and wine pairing with a pink wine of Bern

Pink wines from the region of Bern go well with generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of calf's head with sauce ravigote, stuffed potatoes or duck breast with black figs.

The best vintages in pink wine of Bern

  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5

The most used grape varieties in pink wine of Bern

  • Blauburger
  • Garanoir
  • Mara
  • Pinot Noir

Discover the grape variety: Garanoir

Intraspecific cross between Gamay and Reichensteiner obtained in 1970 by André Jacquinet at the Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil research station (Switzerland). From this same crossbreed, Gamaret and Mara were also born.

Great natural sweet wines of Bern

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Food and wine pairing with a natural-sweet wine of Bern

Natural sweet wines from the region of Bern go well with generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The most used grape varieties in natural-sweet wine of Bern

  • Cabernet Dorsa
  • Gamaret

Discover the grape variety: Sauvignon

Sauvignon Gris is a grape variety that originated in France (South-West). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches and small grapes. Sauvignon Gris can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Burgundy, Jura, Beaujolais, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey.

News from the vineyard of Bern

Stephen Brook: ‘It is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the Bordeaux region’

My book The Complete Bordeaux, which has been revised every five years, is soon to be published in its fourth edition. This may seem like excessive haste, given the scope of the book, but it is astonishing how rapidly changes can take place in the region. Burgundy, in contrast, is relatively stable, since most properties are family-owned and tend to stay that way. But not so in Bordeaux, where there are ample opportunities for newcomers to acquire established properties, as they have been doing ...

Bordeaux ‘Act for Change’ symposium

The focus of the symposium, unsurprisingly, was on the challenges posed by climate change. As if to illustrate the immediacy of the threat, the symposium took place during a heatwave, with temperatures of over 40°C  in Bordeaux and extreme weather events recorded across the coountry: parts of southwest France saw violent storms and winds of 112kph on the evening of 20 June, while vineyards across the Médoc and St-Emilion were damaged by hailstones ‘the size of golfballs’. As Olivier Bernard of D ...

Bordeaux 2021 harvest was 20% below 10-year average following spring frosts

The Conseil Interprofessionnel du Vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) revealed that the Bordeaux 2021 vintage was 20% below the region’s 10-year average. Bud burst came earlier than usual amid very sunny weather in March, and many young buds were then destroyed by severe frosts, which hammered the region in early April. It means that producers will have just 503 million bottles from the 2021 vintage, which is significantly below average. The region’s sweet whites, including Sauternes, suffered the sharpest y ...

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