Winery Dr. ZenzenSpätlese
White wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, vegetarian or poultry.
Food and wine pairings with Spätlese
Pairings that work perfectly with Spätlese
Original food and wine pairings with Spätlese
The Spätlese of Winery Dr. Zenzen matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of croque-monsieur, fish balls or butternut soufflé.
Details and technical informations about Winery Dr. Zenzen's Spätlese.
Discover the grape variety: Riesling
Crystalline, taut whites with vibrant acidity and aromas of citrus, green apple, white flowers, vineyard peach and mineral/petrol notes with age. Made as dry (Trocken, Alsace), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and sweet (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, late harvest). Star of the Moselle, Rheingau, Alsace AOC and Wachau. Also exported to Clare Valley and Finger Lakes.
Informations about the Winery Dr. Zenzen
The Winery Dr. Zenzen is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 90 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: Destemming
Action consisting in separating the grapes from the stalk before vinification. The stalk, the woody part of the bunch, may give the wine an unpleasant vegetal character.
