The Winery Frédéric Engel of Alsace

Winery Frédéric Engel - Crémant d'Alsace Brut
The winery offers 21 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.9.
It is ranked in the top 191 of the estates of Alsace.
It is located in Alsace

The Winery Frédéric Engel is one of the best wineries to follow in Alsace.. It offers 21 wines for sale in of Alsace to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Frédéric Engel wines

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

The top sparkling wines of Winery Frédéric Engel

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Frédéric Engel

How Winery Frédéric Engel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, poultry or appetizers and snacks such as recipes of paella for dummies (simple and delicious), chicken tenderloins with lemon cream or goat's cheese sandwich with honey.

Discovering the wine region of Alsace

Alsace, located in the extreme north-east of France, is Distinguished from other French wine regions by its strong Franco-Germanic influences. These influences are the result of a back-and-forth between the German and French sovereignties over the last few centuries. They can be seen not only in the architecture and culture of Alsace, but also in the wines. Alsace wines are produced under three main appellations: Alsace and Alsace Grand Cru for still white wines (Sweet and Dry), and Crémant d'Alsace for Sparkling wines.

Almost all the wines produced in this region fall under one of these three appellations. Alsace Grand Cru wines are produced from one of the 51 privileged vineyards spread along the Length of the region. Alsace is the only French wine region to produce significant quantities of Riesling and Gewurztraminer. These two grape varieties are more commonly associated with German wines and are reminiscent of Alsace's history.

The top white wines of Winery Frédéric Engel

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Frédéric Engel

How Winery Frédéric Engel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of country-style snow peas, tuna and goat cheese pie or caramelized lamb mice.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Frédéric Engel

On the nose the white wine of Winery Frédéric Engel. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus and sometimes also flavors of minerality, pear or non oak. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Frédéric Engel. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Frédéric Engel

  • 2011With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.24/5
  • 2010With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.07/5
  • 2012With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Frédéric Engel.

  • Gewürztraminer
  • Riesling
  • Pinot Gris
  • Muscat Blanc
  • Pinot Blanc
  • Sylvaner

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

The top red wines of Winery Frédéric Engel

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Frédéric Engel

How Winery Frédéric Engel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, game (deer, venison) or poultry such as recipes of grenadins of veal with ceps, gigolette of rabbit or pasta carbonara almost like the real thing.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Frédéric Engel

  • 2016With an average score of 4.50/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Frédéric Engel.

  • Pinot Noir

The word of the wine: Gluing

Method consisting in clarifying the wine and giving it a limpidity by incorporating a specific product.

The top sweet wines of Winery Frédéric Engel

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Frédéric Engel

How Winery Frédéric Engel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), spicy food or sweet desserts such as recipes of steamed salmon marinated in herbs, coconut chicken curry in thermomix or simple pancake batter.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Frédéric Engel

  • 2011With an average score of 4.70/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Frédéric Engel.

  • Gewürztraminer
  • Pinot Gris

Discover the grape variety: Riesling

White Riesling is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). 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 small bunches, and small grapes. White Riesling can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

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Discover the grape variety: Pinot blanc

Pinot Blanc is a grape variety that originated in Burgundy, mutated from Pinot Gris. Today, it is grown in Alsace where it is called klevner when blended with auxerrois. The continental climate, with its cold winters and hot summers, is particularly suited to pinot blanc. It is resistant to frost in winter and in summer, the roots draw the minerals it needs from the warm soil. Its bunches are made up of small berries with thick skins and melting pulp that produce fruity, spicy wines, balanced between acidity and alcohol. pinot blanc is also used for crémants and sparkling wines. Pinot Blanc is also used for Crémant and sparkling wines. It is widely grown in Italy, where it covers almost 7,000 hectares, and is also found in Germany, Austria, Canada and South Africa.

News about Winery Frédéric Engel and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

Alsace wine leader André Hugel has passed away

André Hugel was an 11th generation member of Famille Hugel, one of the region’s most influential and highly-regarded wine families. The Hugel family settled in the town of Riquewihr, located in the heart of Alsace, all the way back in 1639. André ran Famille Hugel along with his brothers, Jean and Georges, as it developed into one of the world’s top producers. It owns 30 hectares (ha) of prime plots in the Haut-Rhin area, half of which are classified as Grand Cru, and it buys grapes from a furth ...

Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’

Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...

The word of the wine: Gluing

Method consisting in clarifying the wine and giving it a limpidity by incorporating a specific product.

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