The Winery Karl May of Rheinhessen

Winery Karl May - Weisser Burgunder
The winery offers 72 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 111 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Karl May is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 72 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Karl May wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Karl May

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Karl May

How Winery Karl May wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or mild and soft cheese such as recipes of tuna brick (light), natural breton lobster or pizza tartiflette.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Karl May

On the nose the white wine of Winery Karl May. often reveals types of flavors of apples, minerality or lemon and sometimes also flavors of earth, microbio or tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Karl May. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Karl May

  • 2012With an average score of 4.30/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.04/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.86/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.82/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.81/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Karl May.

  • Riesling
  • Weissburgunder
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Müller-Thurgau
  • Grauburgunder
  • Sylvaner

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 pink wines of Winery Karl May

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Karl May

How Winery Karl May wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of sauté of lamb with curry, stuffed zucchini with merguez, beef and spices or rabbit with cider and apples.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Karl May

  • 2016With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2011With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.20/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Karl May.

  • Spätburgunder
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Dornfelder
  • Pinot Noir

Discover the grape variety: Sylvaner

The sylvaner is grown mainly in Germany and Alsace. The buds are somewhat cottony and the young leaves are green. The same applies to the ribbed branches. Once mature, the dominant colour is golden-green and small elliptical berries with small to medium-sized bunches can be seen. The ripe fruit is then adorned by five-lobed leaves. This variety is susceptible to chlorosis, gray mold, powdery mildew and mildew. It is also sensitive to frost and wind because of its long branches. It can be grown in any kind of soil, although it prefers stony, sandy and light soils. It is indeed moderately acidic and offers a complex set of aromas such as bitter almond, fruity and floral background. The taste has an excellent mixture of honey and candied or dried fruits.

The top red wines of Winery Karl May

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Karl May

How Winery Karl May wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of marinated shrimp skewers with garlic, moussaka with spices or express chicken skewers with spices.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Karl May

On the nose the red wine of Winery Karl May. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Karl May. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Karl May

  • 2008With an average score of 4.20/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.64/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.61/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Karl May.

  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Dornfelder
  • Spätburgunder
  • Pinot Noir Précoce
  • Cabernet Cubin
  • Merlot

The word of the wine: Great wine

In the Bordeaux vineyards, the grand vin is the main wine of the château, although a "second wine" is usually produced. It is a wine of lesser ageing made from the youngest vines.

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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.

News about Winery Karl May and wines from the region

Wartime Cognac

The French shipment of 600 bottles of De Haartman & Co Cognac – plus 15 boxes of Bénédictine liqueur – is believed to have been destined for Tsar Nicholas II, but was intercepted in the Baltic Sea and sunk by a German submarine in May 1917. Now Cognac house Birkedal Hartmann has refilled 300 of the recovered bottles with Cognac dating from the early 1900s, using packaging identical to the original, and is selling them for €9,000 each. The wreck of the SS Kyros was discovered by Swedish explo ...

Hugh Johnson: ‘What can irritate me is change for change’s sake’

‘New’ is the second most popular word in any sales catalogue. (The first is ‘Free’.) We scribblers can’t resist it: it guarantees copy of one sort or another. Even in the slowly evolving world of wine, where the main ethos of the product is historical continuity, ‘new’ sells. To someone like me with a strong sense of history, not to mention conservative tastes, it can be a bit unsettling. It’s not really change that bothers me. There is always room for improvement. What can irritate me is change ...

Dream job? Majestic to pay ‘vintern’ to drink wine on holiday

Wine lovers with a valid passport can apply for the Majestic ‘vintern’ scheme, launched this week and dubbed by the retailer as ‘the best summer job ever’. A three-day placement will include a visit to Quinta da Boavista vineyards in Portugal’s picturesque Douro region. Majestic said the vintern will also taste wines from its Wine Club’s Spain & Portugal Summer Case ‘in situ’, before trying the same wines back at home for comparison. It is offering £600 remuneration for three days, which it ...

The word of the wine: Great wine

In the Bordeaux vineyards, the grand vin is the main wine of the château, although a "second wine" is usually produced. It is a wine of lesser ageing made from the youngest vines.