The Winery Weingut Hirschhof of Rheinhessen

Winery Weingut Hirschhof - Riesling S trocken
The winery offers 65 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 278 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Weingut Hirschhof is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 65 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Weingut Hirschhof wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

How Winery Weingut Hirschhof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of traditional flemish carbonades, fish paella or moroccan kefta balls.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

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

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

  • 2018With an average score of 3.97/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.89/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.73/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.72/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Weissburgunder
  • Chardonnay
  • Gewürztraminer
  • Grauburgunder
  • Silvaner

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 red wines of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

How Winery Weingut Hirschhof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of fillet of beef with morels, lamb with ginger honey or mediterranean lamb necklace.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Weingut Hirschhof. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

  • 2011With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.80/5

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

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Blauer Portugieser
  • St. Laurent
  • Spätburgunder
  • Dornfelder
  • Merlot

Discover the grape variety: Merlot

Merlot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small to medium sized bunches, and medium sized grapes. Merlot noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Loire Valley, Armagnac, Burgundy, Jura, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Beaujolais, Provence & Corsica, Savoie & Bugey.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

How Winery Weingut Hirschhof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of croque-monsieur, skate wings with black butter sauce or samoussa 3 reunionese cheeses.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Weingut Hirschhof.

  • Riesling
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Scheurebe

The word of the wine: Grafting

A method used since the phylloxera crisis, consisting of fixing a graft of local origin on a rootstock resistant to phylloxera.

The top pink wines of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

How Winery Weingut Hirschhof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, game (deer, venison) or vegetarian such as recipes of thai beef skewers, garbure landaise or goat cheese and bacon quiche.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Weingut Hirschhof

  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Weingut Hirschhof.

  • Merlot
  • Dornfelder
  • Spätburgunder

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Weingut Hirschhof

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 Weingut Hirschhof.

Discover the grape variety: Scheurebe

German grape variety obtained in 1916 by Georg Shere (1879/1949). It was given until then as coming from a cross between Riesling and Sylvaner, but genetic tests have shown that its father is the Bouquettraube (Bukettrebe), and it is closely related to the Kerner. The Scheurebe can be found in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, Slovenia, Great Britain, the United States (California, Virginia, ...), Canada (Ontario, British Columbia, ...), ... practically unknown in France.

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The word of the wine: Grafting

A method used since the phylloxera crisis, consisting of fixing a graft of local origin on a rootstock resistant to phylloxera.