The Winery Blue Castle of Rheinhessen

Winery Blue Castle - Dornfelder
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is ranked in the top 1259 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Blue Castle is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Blue Castle wines

Looking for the best Winery Blue Castle wines in Rheinhessen among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Blue Castle 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 Blue Castle wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Blue Castle

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Blue Castle

How Winery Blue Castle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of mascarpone pasta with tomato sauce, veal shank in a pot au feu with star anise or cabbage casserole.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Blue Castle

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Blue Castle. is a with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.

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

  • Dornfelder

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 white wines of Winery Blue Castle

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Blue Castle

How Winery Blue Castle wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of jambalaya (louisiana), mussels with marinara or chicken in sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Blue Castle

On the nose the white wine of Winery Blue Castle. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Blue Castle

  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.68/5

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

  • Dornfelder
  • Riesling

Discover the grape variety: Dornfelder

German, intraspecific cross made in 1955 by August Karl Herold (1902-1973) between the helfensteiner and the heroldrebe (more details, click here!). With these same parents he also obtained the hegel. The Dornfelder can be found in Switzerland, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Canada, United States, ... . Virtually unknown in France, we nevertheless recognize a certain interest in it due to its short phenological cycle and the quality of its wines, both rosé and red.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Blue Castle

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 Blue Castle.

Discover the grape variety: Riesling

White Riesling is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Riesling can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

News about Winery Blue Castle and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Fade

Wine lacking in sapidity, flat, soft and without character.