The Winery Kilianshof of Rheinhessen

Winery Kilianshof - Chardonnay Classic
The winery offers 14 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.6.
It is currently not ranked among the best domains of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Kilianshof is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 14 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Kilianshof wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Kilianshof

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Kilianshof

How Winery Kilianshof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of turkey stuffed with chestnuts, tartiflette with smoked salmon or zucchini and goat cheese quiche.

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

  • Chardonnay
  • Spätburgunder
  • Kerner

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 Kilianshof

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Kilianshof

How Winery Kilianshof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

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

  • Regent

Discover the grape variety: Regent

A complex interspecific cross between the diana (sylvaner x Müller-Thurgau) and the chambourcin obtained in Germany in 1967 by Gerhardt Alleweldt. It can be found in Quebec (Canada), Belgium and Switzerland, but is little known in France. It should be noted that Regent, a monogenic variety, which is nevertheless resistant to certain cryptogamic diseases, was "bypassed" in 2010 by a less resistant strain of mildew, which was also the case for bianca.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Kilianshof

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 Kilianshof.

Discover the grape variety: Kerner

Intraspecific crossing between frankenthal and riesling obtained in Germany in 1929 by August Karl Herold (1902/1973). In 1951 and by crossing it with the sylvaner, we obtained the juwel. It should be noted that there is a mutation of Kerner, discovered in 1974 and bearing the name of kernling, with grapes of pink-grey to red-grey colour at full maturity. Kerner can be found in Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan... practically unknown in France except in a few Moselle vineyards.

News about Winery Kilianshof and wines from the region

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The word of the wine: Fade

Wine lacking in sapidity, flat, soft and without character.