Winery FinkenauerCabernet Sauvignon Barrique
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The Cabernet Sauvignon Barrique of the Winery Finkenauer is in the top 0 of wines of Rheinhessen.
Details and technical informations about Winery Finkenauer's Cabernet Sauvignon Barrique.
Discover the grape variety: Helfensteiner
Intraspecific crossing obtained in Germany in 1931 by August Karl Herold (1902-1973) between early pinot noir and frankenthal. This variety can still be found in Germany, the United Kingdom, etc. In France, it is practically unknown.
Informations about the Winery Finkenauer
The Winery Finkenauer is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 31 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.
The word of the wine: Chaptalization
The addition of sugar at the time of fermentation of the must, an ancient practice, but theorized by Jean-Antoine Chaptal at the dawn of the 19th century. The sugar is transformed into alcohol and allows the natural degree of the wine to be raised in a weak or cold year, or - more questionably - when the winegrower has a harvest that is too large to obtain good maturity.
