The Winery Leander Hilgert of Rheinhessen

Winery Leander Hilgert - Grauer Burgunder S Trocken
The winery offers 25 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 3144 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Leander Hilgert is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 25 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Leander Hilgert wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Leander Hilgert

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Leander Hilgert

How Winery Leander Hilgert wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of cajun jumbalaya rice, dal lentils with coconut milk or pizza calzone with ham and mushrooms.

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

  • Grauburgunder
  • Morio-Muskat
  • Gelber Muskateller
  • Riesling

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 Leander Hilgert

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Leander Hilgert

How Winery Leander Hilgert 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 cannelloni with salmon and spinach, seafood, chorizo and chicken paella from patou or pita bread with greek filling.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Leander Hilgert

In the mouth the red wine of Winery Leander Hilgert. is a with a nice freshness.

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

  • Regent
  • Weissburgunder
  • Spätburgunder

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.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Leander Hilgert

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 Leander Hilgert.

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.

News about Winery Leander Hilgert and wines from the region

Andrew Jefford: ‘2021 has been the year of all the miseries’

How’s the weather been this year? Awful. ‘La nature m’écoeure’, one of my wine-growing friends posted on Facebook on 8 April, having been out to look at the frost-crippled shoots on his vines that morning: ‘Nature disgusts me’. It takes a lot to make a wine-grower feel that. He wasn’t alone. Jeremiads echo around the northern hemisphere as 2021 closes. It’s been the year of all the miseries. None suffered more horribly than the growers of Germany’s Ahr valley, where floodwaters caused by the fou ...

Adapting vineyards to a changing climate: Torres look to the future

In the face of rising temperatures and more frequent droughts, what can wine producers do to adapt their viticultural practices? Catalan producer Torres, which has emerged during the past decade as one of the global wine sector’s leading pioneers in tackling climate change, is experimenting with a range of creative ideas. Planting vines at higher altitudes is one option. The company is investing in cooler vineyards high in the mountains of the region. They have planted vines in Tremp at 950m in ...

Decanter Retailer Awards 2022 Shortlist announced

An indispensable guide to the best wine shops, online retail, wine specialists and wine support services in the UK, the Decanter Retailer Awards 2022 Shortlist has been revealed. A highly competitive year, with entries epitomising the exceptional choice consumers have when it comes to buying wine in the UK, the 2022 edition of the Decanter Retailer Awards saw the judging panel grow with six independent experts reviewing entries. The judging process is never easy, and in many cases, commented cha ...

The word of the wine: Frank

Said of a wine that is open and delivers itself immediately, and whose clarity excludes any defect.