The Weingut Josef Schmid is one of the best wineries to follow in Niederösterreich.. It offers 38 wines for sale in of Niederösterreich to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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How Weingut Josef Schmid wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of potjevleesch, zucchini quiche or lemon chicken.
On the nose the white wine of Weingut Josef Schmid. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit and sometimes also flavors of non oak, spices or tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Weingut Josef Schmid. is a with a nice freshness.
Niederösterreich, or Lower Austria, is a wine region in the Northeast of Austria bordering Slovakia and the Czech Republic. It is the country's largest wine region, both geographically and in terms of production.
There are around 28,000 hectares (69,000 acres) of vineyards. These are responsible for roughly half of Austria's total wine output.
Niederösterreich includes eight of Austria's 16 official wine regions, each contributing to its wide variety of wine styles and types. A variety of different Grape varieties are grown in the region, but Grüner Veltliner and Riesling dominate. Pinot Noir and Sankt-Laurent, are all planted throughout the region, making wines of high quality, despite being excluded from the DAC classifications.
Five official Districtus Austriae Controllatus (DAC) wines can be found here.
Wines made in these zones from grapes other than those specified are labelled as Niederösterreich.
- Carnuntum: White wine from Chardonnay, Weissburgunder or Grüner Veltliner. Red wine from Blaufränkisch or Zweigelt
- Kamptal, Kremstal, Traisental: White wines from Grüner Veltliner or Riesling
- Weinviertel: Grüner Veltliner only
The highly regarded region of Wachau also Lies within Niederösterreich, and is home to many of the country's top wine estates. It has its own classification system, carrying Steinfeder, Federspiel or Smaragd labels.
How Weingut Josef Schmid wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef fillet in a crust, pan-fried lamb heart or medallions of monkfish with citrus fruits.
Intraspecific crossing between the saint laurent and the limberger realized in 1922 and in Austria by Fritz Zweigelt (1888/1964) who named it rotburger. Very well known in Austria, it can be found in most Eastern countries, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the United States, etc. In France, it is not very well known and yet this variety has interesting qualities when vinified as a single variety for both red and rosé wines. - Synonyms: rotburger, klosterneuburger, zweigelt blau, blauer-zweigelt in Germany, zweigeltrebe in Austria, Great Britain and the Czech Republic, blauer zwelgetrabe in Hungary, etc. (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here !)
How Weingut Josef Schmid wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of lamb with coconut milk, sauté of pork with chorizo or saint nectaire cheese spread with local ham.
Decanting, an operation performed by a sommelier with a decanter to separate the clear wine from the solid parts in a bottle.
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