The Winery Jakob Gerhardt of Rheinhessen

Winery Jakob Gerhardt
The winery offers 241 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
This estate is part of the Montesquieu.
It is ranked in the top 1623 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Jakob Gerhardt is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 241 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Jakob Gerhardt wines

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

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 sparkling wines of Winery Jakob Gerhardt

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Jakob Gerhardt

How Winery Jakob Gerhardt wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of grandma's chicken casserole, smoked salmon and herb sandwich cakes or tuna, pepper and tomato quiche.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Jakob Gerhardt.

  • Chardonnay
  • Dornfelder
  • Cabernet Blanc

Discover the grape variety: Regent

A complex interspecific cross between the diana (sylvaner x Müller-Thurgau) and the chambourcin obtained in Germany in 1967 by Gerhardt Alleweldt. It can be found in Quebec (Canada), Belgium and Switzerland, but is little known in France. It should be noted that Regent, a monogenic variety, which is nevertheless resistant to certain cryptogamic diseases, was "bypassed" in 2010 by a less resistant strain of mildew, which was also the case for bianca.

The top white wines of Winery Jakob Gerhardt

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Jakob Gerhardt

How Winery Jakob Gerhardt wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of kale soup, squid rings with tomato or dab with coconut milk.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Jakob Gerhardt

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Jakob Gerhardt. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Jakob Gerhardt

  • 2014With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Rivaner
  • Faberrebe
  • Weissburgunder
  • Müller-Thurgau
  • Morio-Muskat

The word of the wine: Fade in

Said of a wine whose different elements are perceived in the mouth in a pleasant and harmonious way.

The top pink wines of Winery Jakob Gerhardt

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Jakob Gerhardt

How Winery Jakob Gerhardt wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, spicy food or vegetarian such as recipes of pike dumplings with shrimp sauce, caramelized lamb mice or zucchini and goat cheese quiche.

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Jakob Gerhardt.

  • Silvaner
  • Spätburgunder
  • Blauer Portugieser

Discover the grape variety: Solaris

Interspecific cross between merzling x Geisenheim 6493 (zarya severa x muscat ottonel) obtained in Germany in 1975 by Norbert Becker. It has the particularity of having only one gene for resistance to mildew and powdery mildew. It can be found in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, England, etc. In France, it is still little known.

The top sweet wines of Winery Jakob Gerhardt

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Jakob Gerhardt

How Winery Jakob Gerhardt wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of shellfish, spicy food or poultry such as recipes of sea sauerkraut with white wine, butternut soufflé or coconut chicken and curry.

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Jakob Gerhardt.

  • Silvaner

The word of the wine: Methuselah

Bottle with a capacity of 6 litres (synonymous with imperial).

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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.

News about Winery Jakob Gerhardt and wines from the region

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Verzé

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Verzé, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines ...

The Mâcon plus appellation seen by Théo et Hugo Merlin

Théo and Paul Merlin are winegrowers at the Domaine Merlin, they emphasizes the characteristics of the appellation Mâcon La Roche Vineuse. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (March 2020). Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinsdebourgogne/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bivb​​ Find out more on our website: https://www.bourgogn ...

At the heart of the terroirs of Mâcon-Serrières

Sequence from the video « At the heart of the Mâcon terroir » which offer a stroll at the heart of the Mâcon terroir. It offers a focus on Mâcon-Serrières, one of the 27 geographical denominations of the Mâcon appellation. Travel through the terroirs of the Mâcon appellation by watching the full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF20y1aBZh8 Both are available in French and English. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneW ...

The word of the wine: Fade in

Said of a wine whose different elements are perceived in the mouth in a pleasant and harmonious way.