The Winery Heribert Kirch of Rheinhessen

Winery Heribert Kirch - Portugieser Rotwein Bodenheimer Heitersbrunnchen
The winery offers 13 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 6649 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Heribert Kirch 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 Heribert Kirch wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Heribert Kirch

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Heribert Kirch

How Winery Heribert Kirch wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of tuna lasagna, vienna cutlets or leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche.

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Heribert Kirch.

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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 pink wines of Winery Heribert Kirch

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Heribert Kirch

How Winery Heribert Kirch wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Heribert Kirch.

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Discover the grape variety: Ravat

Ravat blanc blanc is a grape variety that originated in France. It is a variety resulting from a cross of the same species (interspecific hybridization). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. Ravat blanc blanc is grown in the following vineyards: Rhône Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, Languedoc & Roussillon, Provence & Corsica.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Heribert Kirch

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 Heribert Kirch.

Discover the grape variety: Dornfelder

German, intraspecific cross made in 1955 by August Karl Herold (1902-1973) between the helfensteiner and the heroldrebe (more details, click here!). With these same parents he also obtained the hegel. The Dornfelder can be found in Switzerland, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Canada, United States, ... . Virtually unknown in France, we nevertheless recognize a certain interest in it due to its short phenological cycle and the quality of its wines, both rosé and red.

News about Winery Heribert Kirch and wines from the region

Decanter at Home: Château Angélus masterclass – a philosophy of excellence

Last chance: You can still buy tickets to watch this Château Angélus virtual masterclass and taste the wines, via the Decanter at Home series – book here Guiding us through this tasting was estate co-owner and CEO Stéphanie de Boüard-Rivoal, the eighth generation of the de Boüard family at Angélus. After a first career in London in the financial industry, de Boüard came back to St-Emilion, and the estate where she grew up, in 2012, and told us, ‘it is now my turn to write a new chapter in ...

Warning signs for the wine auction market

Traditionally the wine auction market took the summer off. Although the season has lengthened recently, summer is usually a fallow period. This year, speculation was rampant – will the market (and the prices) continue their upward spiral? The first fall sales have now been conducted, and if prospects for the wine market remain strong, a few clouds linger on the horizon. Wine auction results in 2021 broke all previous records and set a new benchmark. With sales in major auctions of over £500m, th ...

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 ...

The word of the wine: Volatile acidity

Acidity resulting essentially from alcoholic fermentation and formed from acetic acids in the free state.