The Winery Hey of Saale-Unstrut

Winery Hey - Blauer Zweigelt
The winery offers 26 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 24 of the estates of Saale-Unstrut.
It is located in Saale-Unstrut

The Winery Hey is one of the world's great estates. It offers 26 wines for sale in of Saale-Unstrut to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Hey wines

Looking for the best Winery Hey wines in Saale-Unstrut among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Hey 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 Hey wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Hey

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Hey

How Winery Hey wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of lamb tagine with dried apricots, broccoli gratin or halibut with flambéed comté.

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

  • Zweigelt
  • Blauer Portugieser
  • Spätburgunder

Discovering the wine region of Saale-Unstrut

Saale-Unstrut is the northernmost of Germany's 13 wine-growing regions. At 51 degrees northern latitude, it is one of the most northerly wine regions in the world. It takes its name from the two rivers on the banks of which the Vines of the region grow, and is composed of three non-contiguous Parts located mainly in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, with around 650 hectares (1600 acres) of Vineyards, often terraced, on South and south-west-facing slopes along the narrow river valleys. A smaller area of 20 hectares (50 acres) is located in the state of Thüringen and a block of just 7 hectares (17 acres) in Brandenburg.

Two towns within the region, Freyburg and Karsdorf, each have one vineyard which has been accorded Grosse Lage status. Wine has been grown here for more than 1000 years. The Cistercian monks founded the Pforta Abbey in approximately 1100 AD and established the Pfortenser Köppelberg vineyard, which still exists today. The wine industry in this part of Germany had a Hard time during the post-war communist era, but since reunification quality has improved, and the area under vine has expanded slightly.

Saale-Unstrut enjoys plenty of sunshine and has one of the lowest rainfalls of any German wine-growing region. Soils are mainly sedimentary with shell, limestone and sandstone predominating. Despite these favorable conditions, the region's northern Climate is uncompromising, and even when yields are kept low, Spätlese or Auslese wines can only be produced during the warmest of years. Müller-Thurgau is the most widely planted variety in the Saale-Unstrut region, accounting for around 20 percent of the total vineyard area.

The top white wines of Winery Hey

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Hey

How Winery Hey wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of pan-fried carrots, fideuà (spain) or risotto with mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Hey

On the nose the white wine of Winery Hey. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Hey. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Hey

  • 2018With an average score of 4.04/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.60/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Weissburgunder
  • Grauburgunder
  • Gutedel
  • Müller-Thurgau
  • Silvaner

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Hey

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Hey

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

The word of the wine: Chartreuse

In the Bordeaux region, small castle from the 18th or early 19th century.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Hey

Planning a wine route in the of Saale-Unstrut? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Hey.

Discover the grape variety: Zweigelt

Intraspecific crossing between the saint laurent and the limberger realized in 1922 and in Austria by Fritz Zweigelt (1888/1964) who named it rotburger. Very well known in Austria, it can be found in most Eastern countries, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the United States, etc. In France, it is not very well known and yet this variety has interesting qualities when vinified as a single variety for both red and rosé wines. - Synonyms: rotburger, klosterneuburger, zweigelt blau, blauer-zweigelt in Germany, zweigeltrebe in Austria, Great Britain and the Czech Republic, blauer zwelgetrabe in Hungary, etc. (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here !)

News about Winery Hey and wines from the region

Dream job? Majestic to pay ‘vintern’ to drink wine on holiday

Wine lovers with a valid passport can apply for the Majestic ‘vintern’ scheme, launched this week and dubbed by the retailer as ‘the best summer job ever’. A three-day placement will include a visit to Quinta da Boavista vineyards in Portugal’s picturesque Douro region. Majestic said the vintern will also taste wines from its Wine Club’s Spain & Portugal Summer Case ‘in situ’, before trying the same wines back at home for comparison. It is offering £600 remuneration for three days, which it ...

Couple arrested in Croatia over €1.6m wine heist

A man and woman carried out the ‘meticulously planned’ theft at the Atrio hotel and restaurant in western Spain back in October. They made off with a bottle of 1806 Château D’Yquem and a large haul of Domaine de la Romanée Conti after breaking into Atrio’s famous cellar. That sparked a nine-month international manhunt. Police in Spain teamed up with Interpol and Europol, plus authorities in Romania and the Netherlands, to track a pair of suspects down. They eventually swooped on a 29-year-old Me ...

Long Read: Wine had a past with sailboats. Does it have a future too?

In 2007, Frenchman Frédéric Albert founded the Compagnie de Transport Maritime à la Voile (CTMV) with the goal of decarbonising the wine industry. The firm managed to sail its 50m-vessel four times from France to Ireland, England and Canada, before going into liquidation as a consequence of the 2008 economic crisis. Despite the failure, Albert’s pioneering project was a sign for things to come. In 2013, Le Havre-based TransOceanic Wind Transport (TOWT) followed in CTMV’s footsteps sailing some 3 ...

The word of the wine: Chartreuse

In the Bordeaux region, small castle from the 18th or early 19th century.

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