The Winery Hothum of Rheinhessen

Winery Hothum
The winery offers 37 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 879 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Hothum is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 37 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Hothum wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Hothum

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Hothum

How Winery Hothum wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mild and soft cheese such as recipes of brandade of cod from nimes, shrimp in coconut milk or pizza with parma ham and mozzarella.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Hothum

On the nose the white wine of Winery Hothum. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Hothum. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Hothum

  • 1989With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.30/5

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

  • Grauburgunder
  • Riesling
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Silvaner
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Weissburgunder

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 Hothum

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Hothum

How Winery Hothum wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tagliata with truffle oil, paupiettes in a casserole with cream or deer stew.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Hothum

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Hothum

  • 2017With an average score of 3.70/5

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

  • Pinot Noir
  • Dornfelder
  • 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 Hothum

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Hothum

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

The word of the wine: Marie-jeanne (or double magnum)

Bottle with a capacity of 3 litres.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Hothum

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 Hothum.

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 Hothum and wines from the region

DO Montsant increases transparency

The focus is upon a new series of back label additions which will be: Viticultor – Elaborador: viticulturist/winemaker aka vigneron Embotellador – Elaborador: bottler Comercialitzadora: commercial wine agent aka negociant Work on these changes began at their 15th anniversary back in 2016 and has been ongoing since. Despite this length of time, part of their introduction has clearly been spurned by the recent wine fraud case wherein hundreds of thousands of their (and other locals DO’s) bac ...

Sale of six-litre DRC wine ‘rescinded’ amid counterfeit concerns

Acker announced in September that it had sold a six-litre bottle of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti’s (DRC) ‘Romanée-Conti’ 2002 at a Hong Kong auction for nearly HK$3.1m (US$398,400). However, it’s understood that the sale of the bottle was subsequently cancelled. Doubts about the wine’s authenticity have been raised by lawyer and wine fraud expert Don Cornwell on the Wine Beserkers website. He also expressed concerns about another wine, a six-litre bottle of DRC Romanée-Conti 2000, which was origi ...

English and Welsh wine sales soar thanks to surging direct-to-consumer channel

The latest survey from trade body WineGB shows that sales of English and Welsh wines have now increased by 69% between 2019 and 2021. The star performer is the direct-to-consumer sector, which is up by 265% over two years. It now represents 57% of all sales, up from just 36% in 2019. That means English and Welsh wine producers are increasingly cutting out the middlemen – supermarkets, specialist merchants, bars and restaurants – and selling directly to their devotees, either via their ecommerce ...

The word of the wine: Marie-jeanne (or double magnum)

Bottle with a capacity of 3 litres.