Winery HammondDrachenstein Riesling Kabinett
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The Drachenstein Riesling Kabinett of the Winery Hammond is in the top 0 of wines of Rüdesheim.
Details and technical informations about Winery Hammond's Drachenstein Riesling Kabinett.
Discover the grape variety: Sousão
Most certainly Portuguese. It can also be found in Spain and South Africa. It would be related to the loureiro and the caino blanco.
Informations about the Winery Hammond
The Winery Hammond is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 21 wines for sale in the of Rüdesheim to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Rüdesheim
Rüdesheim is a town on the northern banks of the Rhine river in the German wine region of Rheingau. It has a number of notable Vineyard sites planted mainly to Riesling. Seven of these are classified by the VDP as Grosse Lage: Rosengarten, Kirchenpfad, Unterer Bischofsberg, Berg Rottland, Berg Roseneck, Berg Kaisersteinfels and Berg Schlossberg. Someof these are on the south-facing slopes above the town.
The wine region of Rheingau
Rheingau is one of the most important of Germany's 13 Anbaugebiete wine regions. However it is far from the biggest; with 3,076 hectares (7,600 acres) of Vineyard">Vineyards documented in 2012, its output is around one tenth of that from the Pfalz and Rheinhessen regions. Located on the Rhine a 20-minute drive west of Frankfurt, the -gau suffix denotes that it was once a county of the Frankish Empire. The classic Rheingau wine is a DryRiesling with pronounced Acidity and aromas of citrus fruits and smoke-tinged minerality – typically more "masculine" than its equivalent from the Mosel.
The word of the wine: Private cellar
A term that designates an estate or a château belonging to a winegrower or a family, as opposed to a cooperative cellar that brings together member winegrowers.
