Winery DietzOppenheimer Herrenberg Merlot Trocken
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The Oppenheimer Herrenberg Merlot Trocken of the Winery Dietz is in the top 0 of wines of Rheinhessen.
Details and technical informations about Winery Dietz's Oppenheimer Herrenberg Merlot Trocken.
Discover the grape variety: Foglia tonda
A very old Italian grape variety, known in the south of Tuscany, in Umbria, ... in France, it is almost unknown. Foglia tonda is related to sangiovese or nielluccio from Corsica.
Informations about the Winery Dietz
The Winery Dietz is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 20 wines for sale in the of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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.
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The word of the wine: Phylloxera
Aphid that came from America and ravaged European vineyards at the end of the 19th century. It lives on the roots of the vine, from which it pumps the sap. The only vines capable of resisting it had to be imported from the United States, and then grafted onto their root system the wood of traditional French grape varieties. Today, grafted vines are always planted.
