The Winery Jakob Gerhardt of Rheinhessen

Winery Jakob Gerhardt - Excellence Dornfelder Trocken
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 pork roulades with cream and mushrooms, salmon lasagna or spinach and goat cheese quiche.

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Dornfelder
  • Cabernet Blanc

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.

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 croque madame, fried rice with shrimp and chicken or dal lentils 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: Roast (taste of)

Characteristic taste of wines made from grapes affected by botrytis cinerea.

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 fondue with lao sukiyaki sauce (laos), chicken tagine or quiche lorraine.

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

  • Silvaner
  • Spätburgunder
  • Blauer Portugieser

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.

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 scallop mousse, couscous chicken and merguez or turkey blanquette with mushrooms.

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

  • Silvaner

The word of the wine: Density per hectare

Number of vines per hectare. For the same yield, a vine planted with 3,000 vines per hectare bears many more bunches (per vine) than a vine planted with 10,000. The grapes will therefore be less rich in sugar and polyphenols (tannins, aromas...).

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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.

News about Winery Jakob Gerhardt and wines from the region

Master Sommelier Larry Stone explains why he sold Lingua Franca to Constellation Brands

Stone will remain on board as a brand ambassador and adviser to the business he created back in 2012. The winemaking team, spearheaded by Thomas Savre and Burgundian consultant Dominique Lafon, is still in place too. ‘We’re all still there and we’re going to keep making great wine, but we will have better resources,’ Stone told Decanter.com. Stone, a Master Sommelier, purchased the 61 hectares Janzen Farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley on December 31, 2012. He had been working at Evening Land’s a ...

Gusbourne aims high with English sparkling wine at £195

Gusbourne has launched Fifty One Degrees North English sparkling wine from the 2014 vintage at £195 per bottle, which is thought to make it the most expensive so far released. Some others aren’t too far behind – Nyetimber’s 1086 rosé 2010 is £175 – yet Gusbourne’s move reinforces a sense of ambition within the UK wine world to be a regular fixture at this prestige cuvée level. Fifty One Degrees North, named after the position of Gusbourne’s vineyards in Kent and West Sussex, is a ble ...

Walls’ hidden gems: Domaine A&E Verset, Cornas

Emmanuelle Verset is the sixth generation to make wine in her family, and represents the E in Domaine A&E Verset. The A is for Alain, her father. She took over from him in 2016 at the age of 24, and is one of the few female winemakers in Cornas. The Verset name runs deep in this part of the Rhône. You might have heard of Noël Verset (1919 – 2015), whose bottles are highly sought-after today – Noël was Alain’s uncle. Scroll down to see Matt Walls tasting notes and scores for six Domaine A& ...

The word of the wine: Roast (taste of)

Characteristic taste of wines made from grapes affected by botrytis cinerea.