The Winery Burgkellerei Sommerau of Rheinhessen

Winery Burgkellerei Sommerau - Oppenheimer Krötenbrunnen
The winery offers 2 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
This estate is part of the Peter Mertes.
It is ranked in the top 379 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Burgkellerei Sommerau is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 2 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Burgkellerei Sommerau wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Burgkellerei Sommerau

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Burgkellerei Sommerau

How Winery Burgkellerei Sommerau wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of gratin of fresh chard (green and ribs), potato and smoked salmon gratin or tripe in the style of caen.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Burgkellerei Sommerau

  • 2009With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • 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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Burgkellerei Sommerau

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 Burgkellerei Sommerau.

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 Burgkellerei Sommerau and wines from the region

Port producer proposes new classification for ‘young harvest’ releases

Albino Jorge Sousa, owner of Port estate Quinta da Boeira, said his proposal for a new classification called ‘Full Body-Young Harvest’ Ports would inject cashflow earlier for Port producers. Jorge Sousa urged the Port sector to ‘wake up’ to meet what he said was growing demand for younger Ports from wine buyers and importers over the past two years. His proposal comes amid wider efforts to help reinvigorate the Port category. This year, Portugal’s Port and Douro Wine Institute, the I ...

Argentina confirms Balcarce as Buenos Aires’ fourth GI

Approved by the INV viticultural institute on 1 July, Balcarce is the fourth GI to be named in the province of Buenos Aires. The province was largely abandoned as a winemaking region in the 1930s following a law permitting wine to be made only in the Andean Cuyo region, but is is slowly making a name for itself once again with cool climate vintages. Encompassing coast, prairie and the Tandilia mountains, Balcarce is located 37 miles from the Atlantic Ocean and has until recently been known for p ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: New wine

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