Winery MertesSpätlese
White wine
This wine generally goes well with pork, vegetarian or poultry.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Spätlese of Winery Mertes in the region of Rheinhessen often reveals types of flavors of earth, vegetal or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Spätlese
Pairings that work perfectly with Spätlese
Original food and wine pairings with Spätlese
The Spätlese of Winery Mertes matches generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of pizza calzone with ham and mushrooms, avocado and marinated tuna poke bowl or veal axoa (basque country).
Details and technical informations about Winery Mertes's Spätlese.
Discover the grape variety: Riesling
Crystalline, taut whites with vibrant acidity and aromas of citrus, green apple, white flowers, vineyard peach and mineral/petrol notes with age. Made as dry (Trocken, Alsace), off-dry (Kabinett, Spätlese) and sweet (Auslese, Beerenauslese, Trockenbeerenauslese, late harvest). Star of the Moselle, Rheingau, Alsace AOC and Wachau. Also exported to Clare Valley and Finger Lakes.
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Spätlese from Winery Mertes are 2017, 2016, 2015, 0
Informations about the Winery Mertes
The Winery Mertes is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 9 wines for sale in the of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Rheinhessen
71% white region: Riesling is king (5,000 ha), dry to off-dry, ripe yellow fruit, apple, citrus and fine saline minerality. Supple, floral Müller-Thurgau for everyday, the world's largest Silvaner plantation with herbaceous, straight notes. Historic cradle of off-sweet Liebfraumilch. Some supple reds (Dornfelder, Spätburgunder).
The word of the wine: Brut nature (or ultra brut)
A type of champagne that has not received any dosage liqueur.
