Winery MerkleBunter Mergel Schwarzriesling
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The Bunter Mergel Schwarzriesling of the Winery Merkle is in the top 0 of wines of Württemberg.
Details and technical informations about Winery Merkle's Bunter Mergel Schwarzriesling.
Discover the grape variety: Négret Canourgue
Originating very certainly from the high valley of the Tarn aveyronnaise and lozérienne. It was confused for a long time with Abouriou, and as a result it still exchanges, wrongly, a few synonyms. It is very little multiplied, almost unknown in the other French wine regions.
Informations about the Winery Merkle
The Winery Merkle is one of of the world's great estates. It offers 43 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.
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The word of the wine: Anthocyanins
Phenolic compounds present in the skin of grapes that give colour to red wines during maceration.
