The Winery Ernst Sebastian of Ahr

Winery Ernst Sebastian - Ahr Dernauer Pfarrwingert Spätburgunder Trocken
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 297 of the estates of Ahr.
It is located in Ahr

The Winery Ernst Sebastian is one of the best wineries to follow in Ahr.. It offers 13 wines for sale in of Ahr to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Ernst Sebastian wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Ernst Sebastian

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Ernst Sebastian

How Winery Ernst Sebastian wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef with onions chinese style, sot- l- leaves or rabbit with white wine and mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Ernst Sebastian

On the nose the red wine of Winery Ernst Sebastian. often reveals types of flavors of earth.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Ernst Sebastian

  • 2017With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Ernst Sebastian.

  • Spätburgunder
  • Pinot Noir Précoce

Discovering the wine region of Ahr

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Ernst Sebastian

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Ernst Sebastian

How Winery Ernst Sebastian wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of vegetarian such as recipes of ham and comté quiche.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Ernst Sebastian.

  • Spätburgunder

Discover the grape variety: Gros Bourgogne

A very old grape variety that has been cultivated for a long time in Italy and Switzerland (cantons of Valais and Vaud), and is now clearly on the way out. In these countries, it still exists in the vineyards in the form of isolated strains... in France, it is completely unknown and yet it bears the name of a French wine region. According to A.D.N. analyses (J.F. Vouillamoz), its parents include white gouais, furmint, harslevelu, savagnin blanc, sylvaner, etc.

The top white wines of Winery Ernst Sebastian

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Ernst Sebastian

How Winery Ernst Sebastian wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of express veal stew in a pressure cooker, duck breast with red fruits or my mother's rabbit.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Ernst Sebastian

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Ernst Sebastian. is a with a nice freshness.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Ernst Sebastian.

  • Spätburgunder

The word of the wine: Gout (wine of)

In red wine making, the wine comes directly from the vat after devatting (see press).

Discover the grape variety: Pinot

Pinot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. Pinot noir can be found in many vineyards: Burgundy, Alsace, Jura, South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Armagnac, Lorraine, Beaujolais, Rhône Valley, Provence & Corsica.

News about Winery Ernst Sebastian and wines from the region

Walls: Celebrating 50 years of Gigondas

When I have some time to myself in the southern Rhône, my favourite place to relax is the peaceful village of Gigondas. I had even more reason to visit this June, as the growers’ syndicate was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the appellation. Over a meal at Domaine du Clos des Tourelles, we had the opportunity to taste wines spanning five decades, including a remarkable 1971 that was still very much alive and kicking. Gigondas has long been recognised as an exceptional site for winemaking, bu ...

Lilian Bérillon: vine supplier to the stars

You don’t need a state-of-the-art winery to make wine. You don’t need rows of pristine oak barrels. One thing you do need to make good wine is good vines. Have you ever asked yourself where all these vines come from? How do they find their way into the ground? It used to be easy. In the past, winemakers simply took cuttings from their vineyards, propagated them, and planted them in the ground. But phylloxera put a stop to that. What was a simple process acquired layers of complexity: winemakers ...

Walls’ hidden gems: Mas de Libian, Ardèche

Our feet crunched through layers of dry oak leaves as we climbed a pebbly path towards the vineyards behind the farmhouse. Roots go deep here. Not just the tall oaks and squat vines, but families too. I walked the vineyards at Mas de Libian with Hélène Thibon, but it was her father Jean-Pierre that greeted me when I arrived. Hélène’s sister Catherine was out front with Bambi the horse, ploughing the sandier plots. Later, we tasted in the winery with Hélène’s son Aurélien. Three generations of a ...

The word of the wine: Gout (wine of)

In red wine making, the wine comes directly from the vat after devatting (see press).