The Winery Kessler of Rheinhessen

Winery Kessler - Limited Edition Riesling Sp&aumltlese
The winery offers 57 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
This estate is part of the Kessler-Zink.
It is ranked in the top 1104 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Kessler is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 57 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Kessler wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Kessler

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Kessler

How Winery Kessler wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of endives with ham, catalan zarzuela or scallops with cream.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Kessler

On the nose the white wine of Winery Kessler. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Kessler. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Kessler

  • 2015With an average score of 3.92/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Pinot Blanc
  • Grauburgunder

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 red wines of Winery Kessler

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Kessler

How Winery Kessler wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of brazilian feijoada, lamb curl or carrot soup with curry and coconut milk.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Kessler

  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5

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

  • Dornfelder
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Pinot Noir
  • Trollinger

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

The top sweet wines of Winery Kessler

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Kessler

How Winery Kessler wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of oxtail with seed sauce, ramadan berber soup (harira) or chicken on a bed of summer vegetables.

Organoleptic analysis of sweet wines of Winery Kessler

On the nose the sweet wine of Winery Kessler. often reveals types of flavors of tropical fruit, oak or tree fruit.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Kessler

  • 2018With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.71/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.50/5

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

  • Gewürztraminer
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Pinot Noir
  • Riesling

The word of the wine: Interknot

Botanical term for the interval between two nodes or between two leaf insertions on a branch (see merithallus).

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Kessler

Planning a wine route in the of Rheinhessen? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Kessler.

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 Kessler and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘A wine’s visual cues shout, stamp, whistle and roar’

Disconcerting: I couldn’t forget this bottle for days afterwards. Still can’t. Back in August, wine critic Lin Liu MW (together with her partner Philippe Lejeune of Château de Chambert in Cahors) came to dinner, en route to a short holiday in Provence. One of the bottles Lin brought for us to try together was the 2018 Les Rocheuses, Parcelles No 5 et 6, from Château Le Rey in Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux. It came in a slope-shouldered bottle, not a classic Bordeaux bottle. We tried it with some R ...

The Morey Saint Denis appellation seen by Laurent Lignier

Laurent Lignier from Domaine Hubert Lignier and Président of the winegrowers union, mentions the great diversity in the expression of the Morey-Saint-DenisPremier Cru wines. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program broadcasted in April 2021. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/​​​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinsdebourgogne/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bivb​ ...

The Irancy appellation seen by Clotilde Davenne

Clotilde Davenne, from the eponymous estate, mentions the cherry as a main characteristic of the Irancy appellation. She tells us about the Pinot Noir variety which reveals, in its northern location of Bourgogne, lots of freshness and fruitiness that gives the appellation a very special place among the wines of the region. This video is taken from the “Rendez-vous avec les vins de Bourgogne” program (June 2020). Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​ Twitter: https: ...

The word of the wine: Interknot

Botanical term for the interval between two nodes or between two leaf insertions on a branch (see merithallus).