Winery MarkelsheimWeikersheimer Tauberberg Zweigelt
Red wine
This wine generally goes well with blue cheese, pork or lamb.
Food and wine pairings with Weikersheimer Tauberberg Zweigelt
Pairings that work perfectly with Weikersheimer Tauberberg Zweigelt
Original food and wine pairings with Weikersheimer Tauberberg Zweigelt
The Weikersheimer Tauberberg Zweigelt of Winery Markelsheim matches generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of couscous of meat and fish, pork roll with mustard or cantalian patranque !.
Details and technical informations about Winery Markelsheim's Weikersheimer Tauberberg Zweigelt.
Discover the grape variety: Zweigelt
Intraspecific crossing between the saint laurent and the limberger realized in 1922 and in Austria by Fritz Zweigelt (1888/1964) who named it rotburger. Very well known in Austria, it can be found in most Eastern countries, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the United States, etc. In France, it is not very well known and yet this variety has interesting qualities when vinified as a single variety for both red and rosé wines. - Synonyms: rotburger, klosterneuburger, zweigelt blau, blauer-zweigelt in Germany, zweigeltrebe in Austria, Great Britain and the Czech Republic, blauer zwelgetrabe in Hungary, etc. (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here !)
Last vintages of this wine
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Informations about the Winery Markelsheim
The Winery Markelsheim is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 72 wines for sale in the of Württemberg to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Württemberg
Württemberg is known as Germany's premier red wine region. With almost 11,500 hectares (28,500 acres) of vineyards, it is the fourth-largest wine region in the country. Found adjacent to Baden and South of Franken, Wüttemberg is a particularly hilly and rural wine-region. Almost 70-percent of Württemberg wines are red, predominantly made from Trollinger, SchwarzRiesling and Lemberger.
The word of the wine: Grand Cru
In Burgundy, the fourth and final level of classification (above the regional, communal and premier cru appellations), designating the wines produced on delimited plots of land (the climats) whose name alone constitutes the appellation. The climats classified as Grand Cru are 32 in the Côte d'Or plus one in Chablis which is divided into 7 distinct climats. Representing barely 1.5% of the production, the Grand Crus are the aristocracy of Burgundy wines.
