The Winery Max Schell of Ahr

Winery Max Schell
The winery offers 44 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 109 of the estates of Ahr.
It is located in Ahr

The Winery Max Schell is one of the best wineries to follow in Ahr.. It offers 44 wines for sale in of Ahr to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Max Schell wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Max Schell

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Max Schell

How Winery Max Schell wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of beef tagliata with truffle oil, pork tenderloin with chorizo and peppers or rabbit with leeks.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Max Schell

On the nose the red wine of Winery Max Schell. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of spices, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Max Schell. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Max Schell

  • 2015With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.85/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.77/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.74/5

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

  • Spätburgunder
  • Pinot Noir Précoce
  • Blauer Portugieser
  • Pinot Noir

Discovering the wine region of Ahr

Ahr is one of Germany’s least-known and Northernmost wine regions, known for its Pinot Noir reds. It Lies immediately north of the Mosel, and follows the Ahr River in the Final stages of its journey towards its confluence with the Rhein. One might expect a wine region this far north (50°N) to specialize in white wines – like almost every other cool-Climate wine region. After all, neighboring Mosel and Mittelrhein both clearly favor white wines (around 85 percent).

However Ahr producing around 85 percent red wines, of which around three-quarters are made from Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir). The classic example is brick red in Color and smells of red cherries, Sweetspices and forest floor. Barrel-aging can add spice and savory notes. Ahr Pinot Noir is now a much more Serious, modern and "international" wine style that it once was.

Until 30 years ago, the wines were often slightly sweet and very pale. Today they are invariably Dry and deeper in color – although still much paler than the inky Pinots found in, say, Central Otago. Across Germany (most obviously in Pfalz and Baden), assisted by climate change, the popularity of Pinot Noir has been steadily increasing. The wave of interest has carried German Spätburgunder to new heights, and saved from near-extinction the earlier-ripening Pinot Noir clone, Fruhburgunder.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Max Schell

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Max Schell

How Winery Max Schell wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of shoulder of lamb stuffed with cognac, grandma's chicken casserole or autumn pumpkin pie.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Max Schell

  • 0With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Max Schell.

  • Pinot Noir

Discover the grape variety: Blauer Portugieser

The top white wines of Winery Max Schell

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Max Schell

How Winery Max Schell wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of vegetarian, pork or shellfish such as recipes of leek, goat cheese and bacon quiche, pigeon with bacon and mushrooms or brochette of scallops and prawns.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Max Schell

On the nose the white wine of Winery Max Schell. often reveals types of flavors of tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Max Schell. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Max Schell

  • 2018With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.64/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Spätburgunder
  • Weissburgunder

The word of the wine: Ample

Said of a generous wine with a rich body that gives an impression of fullness in the mouth.

Discover the grape variety: Pinot

Pinot noir is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. Pinot noir can be found in many vineyards: Burgundy, Alsace, Jura, South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Armagnac, Lorraine, Beaujolais, Rhône Valley, Provence & Corsica.