The Weingut Geiger & Söhne of Franken

Weingut Geiger & Söhne
The winery offers 81 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 55 of the estates of Franken.
It is located in Franken

The Weingut Geiger & Söhne is one of the world's great estates. It offers 81 wines for sale in of Franken to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Weingut Geiger & Söhne wines

Looking for the best Weingut Geiger & Söhne wines in Franken among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Weingut Geiger & Söhne 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 Weingut Geiger & Söhne wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Weingut Geiger & Söhne

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Weingut Geiger & Söhne

How Weingut Geiger & Söhne wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of beef tagine with vegetables, japanese curry or arctic char with baby vegetables.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Weingut Geiger & Söhne

On the nose the white wine of Weingut Geiger & Söhne. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or earth and sometimes also flavors of microbio, vegetal. In the mouth the white wine of Weingut Geiger & Söhne. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Weingut Geiger & Söhne

  • 2015With an average score of 3.98/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.97/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.79/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.78/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.74/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Weingut Geiger & Söhne.

  • Silvaner
  • Riesling
  • Müller-Thurgau
  • Scheurebe
  • Grauburgunder
  • Bacchus

Discovering the wine region of Franken

Homeland of German Silvaner: dry, straight, mineral and lively whites with notes of green apple, citrus, fresh herbs and a saline touch, planted here for over 350 years (1,500 ha, a quarter of the vineyard). Also supple, floral Müller-Thurgau, taut Riesling, aromatic Bacchus. Some discreet reds (Spätburgunder). 6,040 ha in Bavaria along the Main around Würzburg, red sandstone and shell-limestone soils.

Bottled in the famous ovoid Bocksbeutel.

The top red wines of Weingut Geiger & Söhne

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Weingut Geiger & Söhne

How Weingut Geiger & Söhne wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of puchero, bigos (polish sauerkraut with paprika) or rabbit with marengo sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Weingut Geiger & Söhne

In the mouth the red wine of Weingut Geiger & Söhne. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Weingut Geiger & Söhne

  • 2015With an average score of 3.48/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.46/5
  • 2016With an average score of 2.84/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Weingut Geiger & Söhne.

  • Domina
  • Pinot Noir
  • Regent
  • Cabernet Dorsa
  • Spätburgunder

Discover the grape variety: Kerner

Aromatic, structured whites with lively acidity and a slender mouth, featuring muscat-like aromas of white peach, apricot, white flowers, citrus and Riesling-like notes. Made as nervy dry wines (Trocken), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and mineral high-altitude cuvées. Grown in Germany (Rheinhessen, Palatinate, Württemberg), northern Italy (Alto Adige in the high Val Venosta valleys) and Japan. A Trollinger × Riesling cross created in 1929 in Weinsberg.

The top pink wines of Weingut Geiger & Söhne

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Weingut Geiger & Söhne

How Weingut Geiger & Söhne wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the pink wines of Weingut Geiger & Söhne

  • 0With an average score of 4.25/5

The word of the wine: Rafle (taste of)

A taste considered a defect, characterized by an unpleasant astringency and bitterness, brought by the stalk during the vinification process. In order to avoid it, destemming before vinification is a common practice.

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Discover the grape variety: Scheurebe

Aromatic, structured whites with lively acidity and a round mouth, featuring intense aromas of pink grapefruit, blackcurrant, passion fruit, white flowers and muscat notes. Made as aromatic dry wines (Trocken), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and especially sumptuous botrytised sweet wines (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese). Grown in Germany (Rheinhessen, Palatinate) and Austria. Created in 1916 by Georg Scheu in Alzey, a Riesling × Bukettrebe cross.