The Winery Lizard of Rheinhessen

Winery Lizard
The winery offers 5 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
This estate is part of the Peter Mertes.
It is ranked in the top 79 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Lizard is one of the world's great estates. It offers 5 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Lizard wines

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

The top white wines of Winery Lizard

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Lizard

How Winery Lizard wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of beef stew, kimo (malagasy dish with beef) or tagliatelle with carbonara.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Lizard

On the nose the white wine of Winery Lizard. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, citrus fruit or vegetal and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, spices. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Lizard. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Lizard

  • 2017With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2020With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2019With an average score of 4.10/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.99/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.99/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.74/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Pinot Grigio

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 Lizard

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Lizard

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

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Lizard

On the nose the red wine of Winery Lizard. often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Lizard

  • 2014With an average score of 3.40/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.10/5
  • 2011With an average score of 2.80/5

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

  • Dornfelder

Discover the grape variety: Pinot grigio

Pinot grigio is a grey grape variety mutated from Pinot Noir. It has its origins in Burgundy, where it is called pinot-beurot in reference to the colour of the grey robes worn by the monks of the region. Established in Alsace since the 17th century, pinot grigio was called tokay until 2007. It is made up of bunches of small berries that vary in colour from pink to blue-grey. It is particularly well suited to the continental climate because it is resistant to the cold in winter and to spring frosts. This variety also likes dry limestone soils with plenty of sunshine in the summer. pinot grigio is well suited to late harvesting or to the selection of noble grapes, depending on the year and the concentration of sugars in the berries. Pinot grigio wines are distinguished by their aromatic complexity of white fruits, mushrooms, honey, vanilla, cinnamon, etc., and their great finesse. In the Loire Valley, pinot grigio is used in the Coteaux-d'Ancenis appellations. It gives dry or sweet wines with pear and peach aromas.

The top pink wines of Winery Lizard

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Lizard

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

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Lizard

  • 2013With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.30/5

The word of the wine: Disgorging (champagne)

This is the evacuation of the deposit formed by the yeasts during the second fermentation in the bottle, by opening the bottle. The missing volume is completed with the liqueur de dosage - a mixture of wine and cane sugar - before the final cork is placed. For some years now, some producers have been replacing this sugar with rectified concentrated musts (concentrated grape juice) which give excellent results. A too recent dosage (less than three months) harms the gustatory harmony of the champagne.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Lizard

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 Lizard.

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.