The Winery Christoph Richter is one of the best wineries to follow in Ahr.. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Ahr to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Christoph Richter wines in Ahr among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Christoph Richter 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 Christoph Richter wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Christoph Richter wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef bourguignon with tomato, lisbon veal sauté or home-made cassoulet.
In the mouth the red wine of Winery Christoph Richter. is a with a nice freshness.
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.
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