Winery AltenkirchGrauschiefer Brut

wine of Rheingau of Germany

The Grauschiefer Brut of Winery Altenkirch is a wine from the region of Rheingau.
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The Grauschiefer Brut of the Winery Altenkirch is in the top 0 of wines of Rheingau.

Discover the grape variety: Optima

Intraspecific crossing between sylvaner x riesling (perhaps rieslaner) and müller-thurgau obtained in 1930 by Peter Morio (1887-1960) and Bernhard Husfeld (1900-1970) at the Siebeldingen Research Institute (Palatinate) in Germany. It can be found in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, England, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, ... very little known in France. Note that Optima is the mother of the Orion grape variety.

Informations about the Winery Altenkirch

The winery offers 43 different wines.

Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.

It is in the top 15 of the best estates in the region

It is located in Rheingau

The Winery Altenkirch is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 35 wines for sale in the of Rheingau to come and discover on site or to buy online.

The wine region of Rheingau

Rheingau is one of the most important of Germany's 13 Anbaugebiete wine regions. However it is far from the biggest; with 3,076 hectares (7,600 acres) of Vineyard">Vineyards documented in 2012, its output is around one tenth of that from the Pfalz and Rheinhessen regions. Located on the Rhine a 20-minute drive west of Frankfurt, the -gau suffix denotes that it was once a county of the Frankish Empire. The classic Rheingau wine is a Dry Riesling with pronounced Acidity and aromas of citrus fruits and smoke-tinged minerality – typically more "masculine" than its equivalent from the Mosel.

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