The Winery Burggarten of Ahr

Winery Burggarten
The winery offers 46 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 20 of the estates of Ahr.
It is located in Ahr

The Winery Burggarten is one of the world's great estates. It offers 46 wines for sale in of Ahr to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Burggarten wines

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

The top sparkling wines of Winery Burggarten

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Burggarten

How Winery Burggarten wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of calf sweetbread with mushrooms, pork chops with curry and honey or duck breast with honey, potato and onion with garlic.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Burggarten.

  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Ahr

Ahr is one of Germany’s least-known and Northernmost wine regions, known for its Pinot Noir reds. It Lies immediately north of the Mosel, and follows the Ahr River in the Final stages of its journey towards its confluence with the Rhein. One might expect a wine region this far north (50°N) to specialize in white wines – like almost every other cool-Climate wine region. After all, neighboring Mosel and Mittelrhein both clearly favor white wines (around 85 percent).

However Ahr producing around 85 percent red wines, of which around three-quarters are made from Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir). The classic example is brick red in Color and smells of red cherries, Sweetspices and forest floor. Barrel-aging can add spice and savory notes. Ahr Pinot Noir is now a much more Serious, modern and "international" wine style that it once was.

Until 30 years ago, the wines were often slightly sweet and very pale. Today they are invariably Dry and deeper in color – although still much paler than the inky Pinots found in, say, Central Otago. Across Germany (most obviously in Pfalz and Baden), assisted by climate change, the popularity of Pinot Noir has been steadily increasing. The wave of interest has carried German Spätburgunder to new heights, and saved from near-extinction the earlier-ripening Pinot Noir clone, Fruhburgunder.

The top white wines of Winery Burggarten

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Burggarten

How Winery Burggarten wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of vegetarian, pork or shellfish such as recipes of mushroom, bacon and gruyere quiche, peasant minestrone or scupion (small cuttlefish) in hot sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Burggarten

On the nose the white wine of Winery Burggarten. often reveals types of flavors of citrus fruit, earth or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, microbio or vegetal. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Burggarten. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Burggarten

  • 2018With an average score of 3.91/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.88/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.58/5

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

  • Spätburgunder
  • Riesling
  • Grauburgunder
  • Weissburgunder
  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Pinot

Pinot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). 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. Pinot noir can be found in many vineyards: Burgundy, Alsace, Jura, South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Armagnac, Lorraine, Beaujolais, Rhône Valley, Provence & Corsica.

The top red wines of Winery Burggarten

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Burggarten

How Winery Burggarten wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of braised beef with carrots, lamb tagine with vegetables and preserved lemons or venison leg with tomato sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Burggarten

On the nose the red wine of Winery Burggarten. often reveals types of flavors of earth, red fruit or black fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, microbio or oak. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Burggarten. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Burggarten

  • 2016With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.83/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.81/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.75/5

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

  • Spätburgunder
  • Pinot Noir Précoce
  • Merlot
  • Domina
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

The word of the wine: Oxidative (breeding)

A method of ageing which aims to give the wine certain aromas of evolution (dried fruit, bitter orange, coffee, rancio, etc.) by exposing it to the air; it is then matured either in barrels, demi-muids or unoaked casks, sometimes stored in the open air, or in barrels exposed to the sun and to temperature variations. This type of maturation characterizes certain natural sweet wines, ports and other liqueur wines.

The top pink wines of Winery Burggarten

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Burggarten

How Winery Burggarten wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of vegetarian such as recipes of quiche without pastry.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Burggarten

  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Burggarten.

  • Spätburgunder

Discover the grape variety: Grauburgunder

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). 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 to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

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The word of the wine: Oxidative (breeding)

A method of ageing which aims to give the wine certain aromas of evolution (dried fruit, bitter orange, coffee, rancio, etc.) by exposing it to the air; it is then matured either in barrels, demi-muids or unoaked casks, sometimes stored in the open air, or in barrels exposed to the sun and to temperature variations. This type of maturation characterizes certain natural sweet wines, ports and other liqueur wines.