The Winery Lanius-Knab is one of the world's great estates. It offers 27 wines for sale in of Mittelrhein to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Winery Lanius-Knab wines in Mittelrhein among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Lanius-Knab 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 Lanius-Knab wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Winery Lanius-Knab wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, shellfish or spicy food such as recipes of brazilian feijoada, lobster in court-bouillon or couscous chicken and merguez.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Lanius-Knab. often reveals types of flavors of earth, citrus fruit or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Lanius-Knab. is a powerful with a nice freshness.
Mittelrhein is one of Germany's smaller wine regions, with around 468 hectares (1,156 acres) under Vine. A Long, thin region, it follows the course of the Rhine river between Rheinhessen/bingen">Bingen and Bonn, a distance of about 100 kilometers (60 miles) as the crow flies.
At its Southern end, the region abuts the western edge of Rheinhessen and northern limits of the Nahe. It also intersects with the Mosel and Ahr regions, where their respective rivers Flow into the Rhine.
The better Vineyard sites are concentrated in the south, around Boppard, Bacharach and Bingen.
Some of the scenery here is spectacular, with medieval castles perched on rocky crags overlooking the vineyards and river below. Indeed, the 'Upper Middle Rhine Valley' was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002.
Mittelrhein wine production is dominated by white wine varieties, most obviously Riesling, which accounts for around 65 percent of vines here.
Müller-Thurgau, Grauburgunder (Pinot Gris) and Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc) also feature. The only red-wine grape grown in any quantity here is Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir) which accounts for roughly ten percent.
Very little Mittelrhein wine is exported, and even on the German domestic market it is not widely known. Unfortunately, the region's dramatic beauty comes at a cost to the wine trade.
How Winery Lanius-Knab wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of fondue with broth, veal paupiettes with cider or gigolette of rabbit.
How Winery Lanius-Knab wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of vegetarian such as recipes of quiche without eggs.
A technique that consists of leaving the grapes to macerate in the open air at a low temperature before fermentation, thus enhancing the aromatic expression of the wine.
How Winery Lanius-Knab wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of stuffed squid in the sétoise sauce, tuna pie or japanese curry.
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