Winery Johannis HofRheingau Riesling Spätlese
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The Rheingau Riesling Spätlese of the Winery Johannis Hof is in the top 0 of wines of Rheingau.
Details and technical informations about Winery Johannis Hof's Rheingau Riesling Spätlese.
Discover the grape variety: Reine des vignes
Obtained in Hungary in 1916 by Jean (Janos) Mathiasz by crossing the Beirut date tree with the Csaba pearl. This variety is nowadays very little multiplied, but it is registered in the Official Catalogue of table grape varieties list A1.
Informations about the Winery Johannis Hof
The Winery Johannis Hof is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 9 wines for sale in the of Rheingau to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Rheingau
Rheingau is one of the most important of Germany's 13 Anbaugebiete wine regions. However it is far from the biggest; with 3,076 hectares (7,600 acres) of Vineyard">Vineyards documented in 2012, its output is around one tenth of that from the Pfalz and Rheinhessen regions. Located on the Rhine a 20-minute drive west of Frankfurt, the -gau suffix denotes that it was once a county of the Frankish Empire. The classic Rheingau wine is a DryRiesling with pronounced Acidity and aromas of citrus fruits and smoke-tinged minerality – typically more "masculine" than its equivalent from the Mosel.
The word of the wine: Draft liquor (champagne)
After blending, the wine is bottled with a liqueur de tirage (a mixture of sugar and wine) and a yeast (selected yeasts). The yeast attacks the sugar and creates carbon dioxide. The fermentation, which lasts about two months, is prolonged by an ageing period (15 months minimum in total). The bottle is capped (some rare vintages are capped with a staple and a cork).
