Winery Josef DrathenDornfelder Sweet Red
Sweet wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, poultry or veal.
Food and wine pairings with Dornfelder Sweet Red
Pairings that work perfectly with Dornfelder Sweet Red
Original food and wine pairings with Dornfelder Sweet Red
The Dornfelder Sweet Red of Winery Josef Drathen matches generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of pasta with shrimp, roast veal with caramelized carrots or kale soup.
Details and technical informations about Winery Josef Drathen's Dornfelder Sweet Red.
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.
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Informations about the Winery Josef Drathen
The Winery Josef Drathen is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 85 wines for sale in the of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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 word of the wine: Second fermentation
In the making of champagne, fermentation of the base wine to which is added the liqueur de tirage and which takes place in the bottle. This second fermentation produces the carbon dioxide, and therefore the bubbles that make up the effervescence of the wine.
