The Winery Niersteiner of Rheinhessen

Winery Niersteiner - Dornfelder Halbtrocken
The winery offers 43 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.4.
It is ranked in the top 675 of the estates of Rheinhessen.
It is located in Rheinhessen

The Winery Niersteiner is one of the best wineries to follow in Rheinhessen.. It offers 43 wines for sale in of Rheinhessen to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Niersteiner wines

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

The top red wines of Winery Niersteiner

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Niersteiner

How Winery Niersteiner wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, veal or pork such as recipes of lasagna bolognese, veal shank with mushrooms or rabbit with cider and mushrooms.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Niersteiner

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

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Niersteiner

  • 2018With an average score of 3.30/5
  • 2019With an average score of 3.28/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.27/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.21/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.08/5

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

  • Dornfelder
  • Pinot Noir
  • Spätburgunder
  • Blauer Portugieser

Discovering the wine region of Rheinhessen

Rheinhessen is Germany's largest region for producing the quality wines of the Qualitätswein bestimmter Anbaugebiete (QbA) and Prädikatswein designations, with roughly 26,500 hectares (65,000 acres) of Vineyard">Vineyards as of 2014. Many of its most significant viticultural areas are favorably influenced by the Rhine river, which runs aLong its North and eastern borders. The Rhine, along with the Nahe river to the west and the Haardt mountains to its South, form a natural border. Rheinhessen covers an area south of Rheingau, north of Pfalz and east of Nahe, and is located within the Rhineland-Palatinate federal state.

The region has been cultivating Grapes for wine production at least since ancient Roman occupation. It's also the home to the oldest surviving records of a German vineyard. Named Glöck, the vineyard was included in a deed for a church and vineyards gifted by Carloman – a duke of the Franks of the Carolingian family and the uncle of the first Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne – to the diocese of Würzburg in 742. Within a century, dozens of villages were cultivating grapes throughout Rheinhessen.

An early documentation of Riesling as a distinct grape variety, identified as Rüssling, was also found in records from the city Worms dating back to 1402. The Size of the region, and its location on the Rhine, has given it a significant role in Germany's wine industry history. Its largest city, Mainz, has been an unofficial Center for wine trade, being home to several national wine organizations including the German Wine Institute and the Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates (Verband Deutscher Prädikats-und Qualitätsweingüter e. V.

The top white wines of Winery Niersteiner

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Niersteiner

How Winery Niersteiner wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, spicy food or mushrooms such as recipes of chicken blanquette, coconut curry cauliflower in the cookeo or rabbit with beer and mustard.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Niersteiner

On the nose the white wine of Winery Niersteiner. often reveals types of flavors of earth, microbio or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Niersteiner. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Niersteiner

  • 2014With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2020With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.50/5
  • 2012With an average score of 3.40/5

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

  • Riesling
  • Silvaner
  • Grauburgunder
  • Chardonnay

Discover the grape variety: Kerner

Intraspecific crossing between frankenthal and riesling obtained in Germany in 1929 by August Karl Herold (1902/1973). In 1951 and by crossing it with the sylvaner, we obtained the juwel. It should be noted that there is a mutation of Kerner, discovered in 1974 and bearing the name of kernling, with grapes of pink-grey to red-grey colour at full maturity. Kerner can be found in Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan... practically unknown in France except in a few Moselle vineyards.

The top sweet wines of Winery Niersteiner

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Niersteiner

How Winery Niersteiner wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Niersteiner.

  • Kerner

The word of the wine: ODG

Organisation for the defence and management of wine, set up following the reform of the "syndicats de crus". The ODG is the collective organisation responsible for the defence and management of a product under an official sign of identification and quality and between wine appellations.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Niersteiner

Planning a wine route in the of Rheinhessen? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Niersteiner.

Discover the grape variety: Dornfelder

German, intraspecific cross made in 1955 by August Karl Herold (1902-1973) between the helfensteiner and the heroldrebe (more details, click here!). With these same parents he also obtained the hegel. The Dornfelder can be found in Switzerland, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Canada, United States, ... . Virtually unknown in France, we nevertheless recognize a certain interest in it due to its short phenological cycle and the quality of its wines, both rosé and red.

News about Winery Niersteiner and wines from the region

St-Emilion 2012 Classification upheld in court

Bordeaux’s administrative court of appeal has effectively validated the St-Emilion 2012 Classification after rejecting long-standing complaints from three châteaux. France’s national appellation body, INAO, said the decision upholds an original court ruling from 2015. It added the complainants still have two months in which to appeal the judgement, however. Legal challenges to the St-Emilion 2012 Classification have been a feature of the past decade in Bordeaux. INAO said it was ‘reassured’ by t ...

La Rioja Alta expands with ‘artisanal vineyard’ deals

Guillermo de Aranzabal Bittner, a director at La Rioja Alta, said the company had acquired 35ha of old vines, with a minimum age of 45 years, in the village of Elvillar at an average altitude of 600 metres. He also said La Rioja Alta would buy more old vines this year, bringing total ‘artisanal vineyard’ acquisitions to a minimum of 5oha, and potentially up to 75ha, by the end of 2022. ‘We are buying very old vineyards, pruned in the traditional way with very low production, some of which are fi ...

Former mafia boss Michael Franzese targets international expansion for his wine brand

Franzese was known as the ‘yuppie don’ in the 1980s after rising to the rank of caporegime in the Colombo crime family. Fortune Magazine placed him at No. 18 on its 50 Biggest Mafia Bosses list, and he gained a reputation as one of the mob’s biggest earners since Al Capone. He was portrayed by Joseph Bono in Goodfellas. Franzese became a born-again Christian during a lengthy prison sentence for racketeering, and he managed to walk away from the mafia without going into protective custody. He is ...

The word of the wine: ODG

Organisation for the defence and management of wine, set up following the reform of the "syndicats de crus". The ODG is the collective organisation responsible for the defence and management of a product under an official sign of identification and quality and between wine appellations.