The Weingut Merkel is one of the best wineries to follow in Pfalz.. It offers 21 wines for sale in of Pfalz to come and discover on site or to buy online.
Looking for the best Weingut Merkel wines in Pfalz among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Weingut Merkel 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 Weingut Merkel wines with technical and enological descriptions.
How Weingut Merkel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of leeks with ham and béchamel sauce, pasta salad with surimi or thai green curry.
Fleshy, dry, fruity Riesling is the region's signature: yellow peach, apricot, ripe citrus, lovely mineral tension. Germany's largest red-wine area (40%), with silky Spätburgunder showing red fruit and spice, darker structured Dornfelder, supple Portugieser. Some rounded Pinot Blanc and Pinot Gris. A 23,640 ha vineyard along the Haardt, among Germany's warmest (>2,000 h of sun).
From gourmet everyday bottles to age-worthy wines.
How Weingut Merkel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of spaghetti with beef balls, stuffed cutlets or ham and cheese cake.
Structured, full-bodied dry whites with a slightly copper-tinged pale golden colour, ample palate and moderate acidity, showing signature aromas of yellow fruits (pear, peach, apricot), honey, smoke, almond and spiced notes. Also produced as off-dry and botrytised sweet wines. Makes great German-speaking whites in Germany (Baden, Palatinate), Austria, northern Italy (Südtirol) and Switzerland. German synonym for pinot gris, a French grey variety native to Burgundy.
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Richly coloured and structured reds with a deep purple colour and supple tannins, on aromas of blackcurrant, blackberry, plum, spices and discreet herbal notes. Round palate, fruity finish. A disease-resistant hybrid (downy and powdery mildew), it produces modern organic reds in Germany (Rheinhessen, Palatinate), Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands. Created in 1967 at Geilweilerhof by Gerhardt Alleweldt.
