The Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann of Rheinhessen

Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann
The winery offers 28 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
This estate is part of the Willems & Hofmann.
It is ranked in the top 804 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 28 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann

How Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of stuffed cutlets, pizza calzone with ham and mushrooms or roast wild boar with beer.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann

  • 2018With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Bacchus
  • Silvaner
  • Pinot Noir
  • Rivaner
  • Schwarzriesling

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 Familie Hofmann

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann

How Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast beef with garlic, veal escalope with marsala or my mother's rabbit.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann

On the nose the red wine of Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann. often reveals types of flavors of earth, oak or red fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann

  • 2013With an average score of 4.03/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Tauberschwarz
  • Domina
  • Spätburgunder

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 Weingut Familie Hofmann

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann

How Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The word of the wine: Grape variety

A type of vine plant and, by extension, the term used to designate the grapes that come from it. The term "table grape" is used to designate the grapes used for consumption, whereas the term "grape variety" is used to designate the wine grapes used to make wine.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann

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 Familie Hofmann.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

News about Winery Weingut Familie Hofmann and wines from the region

DO Penedès announces the first “Vi de Mas” wines

In November of 2021, Spain’s DO Penedès announced a massive overhaul of their bylaws with many changes aimed at re-orienting the region via a “10-year plan”. One of the key aspects was a new classification system for the estates of the region called, “Vi de Mas”, the first five of which have just been certified. While most wine regions looking to implement a system use the so-called “Burgundian Pyramid” as a structure, Penedès took a different approach that merged some of the Burgundian sy ...

Fine wine demand slows as recession fears mount, says Liv-ex

Rampant inflation, the global fuel crisis, recession fears and fiscal tightening from central banks have caused equities and bonds to tank over the past few months. Fine wine has significantly outperformed global equities and most commodities, but market momentum has been ‘much more subdued’ in the second quarter of 2022, said Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade. The Liv-ex 1000 – which tracks the performance of 1,000 leading fine wines – increased by 3.6% year-on-year in ster ...

Clare Tooley MW: My top 10 wines of 2021

Only 10? I feel a little like I do when faced with a hefty restaurant wine list. So many lovely wines, so little time to do them justice. My mind tracks the names, vintages and regions in fleeting time, flipping like a kaleidoscope. The effort is always accompanied by that nagging worry you’re missing the absolute gem. All the while, your dinner date is itching simply to get on and tuck into the evening with a good glass of wine. The Tooley household has been through a lot in 2021, including som ...

The word of the wine: Grape variety

A type of vine plant and, by extension, the term used to designate the grapes that come from it. The term "table grape" is used to designate the grapes used for consumption, whereas the term "grape variety" is used to designate the wine grapes used to make wine.