The Winery Christ of Rheinhessen

Winery Christ - Bornheimer Riesling Trocken
The winery offers 12 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 2021 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen
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The Winery Christ is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 12 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Christ wines

Looking for the best Winery Christ wines in Rheinhessen among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Christ wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Christ wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Christ

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Christ

How Winery Christ wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of basque chicken with chorizo, pike dumplings with shrimp sauce or traditional tagine (morocco).

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Christ

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Christ. is a with a nice freshness.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Christ.

  • Riesling

Discovering the wine region of Rheinhessen

Rheinhessen is Germany's largest region for producing the quality wines of the Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete (QbA) and Prädikatswein designations, with roughly 26,500 hectares (65,000 acres) of Vineyard">Vineyards as of 2014. Many of its most significant viticultural areas are favorably influenced by the Rhine river, which runs aLong its North and eastern borders. The Rhine, along with the Nahe river to the west and the Haardt mountains to its South, form a natural border. Rheinhessen covers an area south of Rheingau, north of Pfalz and east of Nahe, and is located within the Rhineland-Palatinate federal state.

The region has been cultivating Grapes for wine production at least since ancient Roman occupation. It's also the home to the oldest surviving records of a German vineyard. Named Glöck, the vineyard was included in a deed for a church and vineyards gifted by Carloman – a duke of the Franks of the Carolingian family and the uncle of the first Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne – to the diocese of Würzburg in 742. Within a century, dozens of villages were cultivating grapes throughout Rheinhessen.

An early documentation of Riesling as a distinct grape variety, identified as Rüssling, was also found in records from the city Worms dating back to 1402. The Size of the region, and its location on the Rhine, has given it a significant role in Germany's wine industry history. Its largest city, Mainz, has been an unofficial Center for wine trade, being home to several national wine organizations including the German Wine Institute and the Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates (Verband Deutscher Prädikats-und Qualitätsweingüter e. V.

The top red wines of Winery Christ

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Christ

How Winery Christ wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of pot roast, lamb chops marinated with herbs or rib steak, tomato sauce, peppers..

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Christ

  • 2015With an average score of 4.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Christ.

  • Shiraz/Syrah

Discover the grape variety: Rubi

Pink selection made in Brazil, following a natural coloured mutation of the italia, discovered in 1981 by San Giorgio Jonico. Since 24.08.2009, it is registered in the Official Catalogue of table grape varieties, list A1. In Italy, a more colourful mutation of the Rubi was discovered, called benitaka, which is more uniform in berry colour and ripens about a week earlier. The black brasil variety, which can be found in Brazil, is said to be a natural mutation of benitaka. Finally, Rubi should not be confused with ruby seedless, also a pink apyrene grape.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Christ

Planning a wine route in the of Rheinhessen? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Christ.

Discover the grape variety: Grignolino

Most certainly Italian, it is mainly cultivated in the region of Asti in Piedmont and very little known elsewhere in Italy.

News about Winery Christ and wines from the region

Château Lafon-Rochet appoints Christophe Congé as MD

Having joined Domaine Barons de Rothschild in 1999, Congé has since held the role of oenologist and wine operations manager across Château Lafite Rothschild and Château Duhart Milon for over 22 years. He has now been appointed MD of  Saint-Estèphe fourth growth Château Lafon-Rochet. He takes on his new role with immediate effect. Congé will work closely with Emmanuel Cruse, director of Vignobles Cruse-Lorenzetti, which acquired Château Lafon-Rochet from the Tesseron family last year. The appoint ...

Major Champagne merger for Nicolas Feuillatte to go ahead

Nearly 9% of Champagne’s vineyard area will be covered by the merger between Centre Vinicole – Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte and the Coopérative Régionale des Vins de Champagne (CRVC), which includes the Champagne Castelnau label. A deal was delayed earlier in 2021, but the merger has now been approved by the two companies’ extraordinary general assemblies. It is expected to be effective from 31 December. Together, the two groups will create a new cooperative, ‘Terroirs et Vigne ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Vaccaresis

Black grape variety, one of the 13 of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, which can be used in a blend in this appellation and other neighbouring AOCs (Côtes-du-Rhône, Gigondas...). It produces a floral, elegant and fresh wine, which balances the warmth of the Grenache. It is rare.