The Winery Frank Bockius of Rheinhessen

Winery Frank Bockius
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 7198 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

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

Top Winery Frank Bockius wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Frank Bockius

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Frank Bockius

How Winery Frank Bockius wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of spaghetti with courgettes and italian ham, marinated veal skewers with herbs or pork roll with tomato sauce.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Frank Bockius.

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Discovering 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 region has been cultivating Grapes for wine production at least since ancient Roman occupation. It's also the home to the oldest surviving records of a German vineyard. Named Glöck, the vineyard was included in a deed for a church and vineyards gifted by Carloman – a duke of the Franks of the Carolingian family and the uncle of the first Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne – to the diocese of Würzburg in 742. Within a century, dozens of villages were cultivating grapes throughout Rheinhessen.

An early documentation of Riesling as a distinct grape variety, identified as Rüssling, was also found in records from the city Worms dating back to 1402. The Size of the region, and its location on the Rhine, has given it a significant role in Germany's wine industry history. Its largest city, Mainz, has been an unofficial Center for wine trade, being home to several national wine organizations including the German Wine Institute and the Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates (Verband Deutscher Prädikats-und Qualitätsweingüter e. V.

The top white wines of Winery Frank Bockius

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Frank Bockius

How Winery Frank Bockius wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of roast pork orloff, chicken tagine with lemon confit (marrakech style) or chicken with tomato.

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Frank Bockius.

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Discover the grape variety: Mara

Intraspecific cross between gamay noir and reichensteiner obtained in 1970 by André Jacquinet at the Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil research station (Switzerland). From these same parents he also obtained the gamaret and the garanoir. It should not be confused with the Romanian direct producer hybrid, also black, resulting from an interspecific cross between 12 303 Seyve-Villard and ozana. Mara is mainly cultivated in Switzerland and is virtually unknown in France.

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Planning a wine route in the of Rheinhessen? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Frank Bockius.

Discover the grape variety: Négret de Banhars

Négret de Banhars noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Aveyron). It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by bunches of medium to large size, and grapes of medium to large caliber. Négret de Banhars noir can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Winery Frank Bockius and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Pulp

Fleshy and juicy part of the grape berry, it contains sugars, organic acids and various nitrogenous and mineral compounds.