Cisterzienser Weingut MichelSommersprossen
White wine
This wine generally goes well with
Details and technical informations about Cisterzienser Weingut Michel's Sommersprossen.
Discover the grape variety: Admirable de Courtiller
Table grape with long clusters and juicy, crunchy golden berries with delicate sweet and muscat-tinged flavours and thin skin. Vinified in limited quantities, giving simple, fresh and lightly muscat-scented whites. Now rare, appreciated by enthusiasts and preserved in French ampelographic collections, listed in the official Catalogue on List A1. French table grape variety from a chasselas × bicane cross obtained around 1840 in Saumur by Dr Courtiller.
Informations about the Cisterzienser Weingut Michel
The Cisterzienser Weingut Michel is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 46 wines for sale in the of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Rheinhessen
71% white region: Riesling is king (5,000 ha), dry to off-dry, ripe yellow fruit, apple, citrus and fine saline minerality. Supple, floral Müller-Thurgau for everyday, the world's largest Silvaner plantation with herbaceous, straight notes. Historic cradle of off-sweet Liebfraumilch. Some supple reds (Dornfelder, Spätburgunder).
The word of the wine: Food and wine pairing
It is the set of techniques that allow for the pleasant combination of food and wine. Food and wine pairing is based on a few basic principles, such as similarity, complementarity or contrast, and involves all the elements that make up the wine and the food (flavours, textures, aromas, etc.).
