The Winery Krughof of Rheinhessen

Winery Krughof - Bornheimer Hähnchen Silvaner Trocken
The winery offers 47 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 4132 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Krughof is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 47 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Krughof wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Krughof

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Krughof

How Winery Krughof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or vegetarian such as recipes of chicken in sauce, country cabbage or quiche without pastry, courgette and blue cheese.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Krughof

In the mouth the white wine of Winery Krughof. is a with a nice freshness.

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

  • Riesling
  • Silvaner
  • Gelber Muskateller
  • Grauburgunder
  • Schwarzriesling

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 Krughof

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Krughof

How Winery Krughof wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of pasta with artichoke hearts and bacon, stuffed red mullet ballotines or cajun jumbalaya rice.

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

  • Dornfelder
  • Merlot
  • Regent
  • Spätburgunder

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.

The top pink wines of Winery Krughof

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Krughof

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

The word of the wine: Bourbe

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Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Krughof

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 Krughof.

Discover the grape variety: Riesling

White Riesling is a grape variety that originated in France (Alsace). It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Riesling can be found in many vineyards: Alsace, Loire Valley, Languedoc & Roussillon, Lorraine, Provence & Corsica, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais, South West.

News about Winery Krughof and wines from the region

Demand for NZ wine shows no sign of slowing

Global demand for New Zealand wine saw exports rise by 9% to NZ$599m (£315m) in the first quarter of the new export year, to the end of September 2021, according to the latest data from New Zealand Winegrowers (NZW). A higher price per litre saw the average value of export wines rise by 4% for the three months, versus the same period of last year, but NZW also reiterated that managing tight supplies was a key challenge for wineries. ‘The ongoing demand for New Zealand wine has proven that the di ...

Walls: My top 10 Rhône wines of the year 2021

Of all the columns I’ve written this year, this one should have been the easiest to write: open my tasting notes file, sort by year 2021, sort by score, select the top ten highest scoring wines, copy and paste. Go to the pub. But it’s not that simple. Some wines are technically perfect and undeniably excellent, wines I respect greatly that deserve their high scores – but on a personal level, they leave me a little cold. Scroll down to see tasting notes and scores for Matt Walls’ top ...

Canada’s Okanagan Valley approves six new sub-appellations

Canada’s western province of British Columbia (BC), has approved six new sub-appellations for its most famous wine-growing region of Okanagan Valley. The Okanagan Valley is BC’s largest appellation – called Geographical Indications (GIs) in Canada. And from a standing start in 2015, it now has 11 sub-GIs following the recent ratification. The six new sub-GIs are: Summerland Valleys, Summerland Lakefront, Summerland Bench, East Kelowna Slopes, South Kelowna Slopes and Lake Country. They are now l ...

The word of the wine: Bourbe

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