The Winery Hey of Saale-Unstrut

Winery Hey
The winery offers 38 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 38 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 greek-style shepherd's pie, simmered pork cheeks with cream sauce and dijon mustard or gratin comtois.

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 rabbit stew the old fashioned way, spaghetti all 'amatriciana or chicken pie.

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: Müller-Thurgau

Müller-Thurgau shows the character of its noble origins. This Swiss white grape variety is a cross between the royal madeleine and the riesling. The idea that the latter was crossed with the sylvaner is irrelevant. The variety can be recognized by its vigorous character and its semi-erect habit. Preferring rich soils and short prunings, the plant sees its buds open quite early. The buds are cottony and soft green in color. The slightly embossed and tormented blade, with 5 to 7 lobes, makes it possible to distinguish the adult leaves. The clusters appear compact, pyramidal or cylindrical in shape and small to medium in size. The flavour of the Müller-Turgau berries is reminiscent of Muscat. The juicy and crunchy pulp is revealed under a greyish skin. When ripe, the fruit has a mottled shell on a golden yellow background. Switzerland prefers to extract the juice from this variety. The wine made from it is rather heavy and does not keep well.

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: Hat

Solid part (marc), composed of pips and skins (sometimes of the stalk), which forms at the top of the tank during fermentation. The pigeage consists in breaking this cap to put back in suspension these elements and to favour the exchanges between the juice and the skins.

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: Weissburgunder

News about Winery Hey and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Hat

Solid part (marc), composed of pips and skins (sometimes of the stalk), which forms at the top of the tank during fermentation. The pigeage consists in breaking this cap to put back in suspension these elements and to favour the exchanges between the juice and the skins.

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